>>> WE ARE RECORDING.
>> GOOD MORNING AND THANK YOU
FOR THE APRIL 27th 2021 MEETING
OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND HUMAN
SERVICES COMMITTEE WILL COME TO
ORDER.
IT'S 9:31 A.M.
WILL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE
ROLL.
>> PRESIDENT GONZALEZ?
>> PRESENT.
>> COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS?
>> PRESENT.
>> COUNCILMEMBER MORALES?
>> HERE.
>> SONNY NGUYEN?
>> PRESENT.
>> COUNCILMEMBER HERBOLD?
>> PRESENT.
>> FIVE PRESENT.
>> ON TODAY'S AGENDA WE WILL
HAVE THE EXECUTIVE MEMBERS OF
THE INTERDEPARTMENTAL TEAM ON
POLICING AND WE HAVE GOOD
COUNCIL REPRESENTATION ON THE
INTERDEPARTMENTAL TEAM, AS
WELL.
THE PRESENTATION WILL BE LED BY
MEMBERS FROM THE EXECUTIVE
DEPARTMENTS WERE PARTICIPATING
AND WE WILL BE HAVING A
PRESENTATION FROM CENTRAL STAFF
ON THE SEATTLE POLICE
DEPARTMENT QUARTERLY FINANCING
AND STAFFING REPORT AND THEN A
PRESENTATION BY THE HUMAN
SERVICES DEPARTMENT, UPDATING
US ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW
FAITH AND THRIVING COMMUNITIES
DIVISION AND THE TRANSFER OF
VICTIM ADVOCATES FROM SEATTLE
POLICE TO HSD.
TWO OF THE ITEMS ON THIS AGENDA
TODAY IS THE FOCUS ON, I THINK,
SOME OF THE REALLY IMPORTANT
WORK THAT THE CITY, THE COUNCIL
AND THE EXECUTIVE ARE DOING
TOWARD RIGHTSIZING THE
FUNCTIONS OF THE SEATTLE POLICE
DEPARTMENT.
WE REALLY APPRECIATE GETTING
THIS STATUS REPORT TODAY.
IF THERE ARE NO COMMENTS, I
WILL APPROVE OUR AGENDA FOR OUR
COMMITTEE MEETING TODAY.
HEARING NO COMMENTS NOR
OBJECTIONS, TODAY'S AGENDA IS
APPROVED.
WE WILL TRANSITION INTO PUBLIC
COMMENT AND I WILL MODERATE THE
PUBLIC, AND PERIOD IN THE
FOLLOWING MANNER.
EACH SPEAKER WILL BE GIVEN TWO
MINUTES AND I WILL CALL ON EACH
SPEAKER BY NAME AND IN THE
ORDER IN WHICH THEY REGISTERED
ON THE COUNCIL WEBSITE.
IF YOU HAVEN'T REGISTERED TO
SPEAK BUT WANT TO DO SO, SIGN
UP BEFORE THE END OF THE PUBLIC
HEARING BY GOING TO THE COUNCIL
WEBSITE AND THE LINK IS ON
TODAY'S AGENDA.
WHEN I CALL A SPEAKER'S NAME,
YOU WILL HEAR A PROMPT AND WHEN
YOU'VE HEARD THAT, YOU WILL NEED
TO PRESS STAR SIX TO UNMUTE
YOURSELF.
WHEN YOU HEAR THE PROMPT,
REMEMBER TO PRESS STAR SIX TO
UNMUTE YOUR CELL.
PLEASE BEGIN BY STATING YOUR
NAME AND THE ITEM YOU ARE
ADDRESSING AND THE SPIEGEL'S
SPEAKERS WILL HEAR A TONE WHEN
YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS LEFT AND
THEN YOU NEED TO BEGIN TO WRAP
UP YOUR PUBLIC COMMENTS.
IF YOU DO NOT WRAP UP YOUR
COMMENTS AT THE END OF THE
ALLOTTED TIME PERIOD, THE
MICROPHONE WILL BE MUTED AFTER
10 SECONDS TO ALLOW US TO HEAR
FROM THE NEXT SPEAKER.
WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR
PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE
DISCONNECT FROM THE LINE AND IF
YOU PLAN TO CONTINUE FOLLOWING
THE MEETING, DO SO VIA THE
SEATTLE CHANNEL OR THE
LISTENING OPTIONS ON THE
AGENDA.
THERE ARE 20 PEOPLE SIGNED UP
FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AND EACH
SPEAKER IS ALLOTTED TWO
MINUTES.
WE ARE AWARE OF A GROUP TODAY
WHO WILL BE PRESENTING TO
GATHER AND GROUPS OF FIVE GET
FIVE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
JUST LETTING FOLKS KNOW IN
ADVANCE THAT WE HAVE THAT.
SO, WITH THAT, AND AGAIN, IF NO
QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, WE WILL
MOVE INTO PUBLIC COMMENT.
THE FIRST PERSON SIGNED UP IS
HOWARD GALE.
HOWARD?
GOOD MORNING.
>> ARE YOU WITH US, HOWARD?
I DON'T SEE THAT YOU ARE MUTED.
WE ALSO CANNOT HEAR YOU.
NOW, I SEE YOU ARE MUTED.
STAR SIX, PLEASE.
NOT HEARING YOU, HOWARD.
I THINK WE WILL NEED TO MOVE
ON.
>> I'M SORRY.
I'M SORRY.
MY BAD, MY FAULT.
SORRY.
OKAY.
GOOD MORNING.
HOWARD GALE COMMENTING ON
CONTINUED POLICE ABUSE.
LAST WEEK'S VERDES IN THIS
GEORGE FLOYD CASE WAS SOME
SMALL MEASURE OF
ACCOUNTABILITY.
IF IT IS TO HAVE MEETING BEYOND
THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY IN ONE
CITY, WE MUST ALL DEMAND
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR POLICE
KILLINGS ON OTHER DAYS IN OTHER
CITIES AND DEMAND WITH SYSTEMS
OF ACCOUNTABILITY THAT DON'T
RELY ON POLICE MURDERS BECOMING
A NATIONAL CELEBRITY IN ORDER
TO ACHIEVE ACCOUNTABILITY.
RESULTING IN THE MURDERS OF
JACK HEWING TIN, AND OTHERS,
MICHAEL TAYLOR -- DANNY
RODRIGUEZ, THESE WERE MOSTLY
PEOPLE OF COLOR KILLED BY THE
SPD UNDER CONDITIONS WHERE THEY
HAD A KNIFE, A BOTTLE OR NO
WEAPON.
MOST EXPERIENCED A SEVERE
MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS.
THE ABSOLUTE MINIMUM LEVEL OF
ACCOUNTABILITY WOULD CAUSE US TO
RECONSIDER A POLICE
ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM THAT
RUBBERSTAMPS THESE MURDERS AS
JUSTIFIED AND, QUOTE, WITHIN
POLICY.
IS YOUR UNQUESTIONED BELIEF
THAT OUR POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY
SYSTEM WORKS, RESULTING IN AN
EVEN DEEPER LEVEL OF
UNACCOUNTABILITY?
WE NEED A FULL CIVILIAN CONTROL
BEYOND THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF
POLICE INVESTIGATING POLICE.
IT'S HAPPENING IN OTHER CITIES
IN NASHVILLE, PORTLAND, OREGON
AND WHY NOT HERE?
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER INCLUDES
INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE PART OF A
GROUP.
THE FIRST PERSON, AND THEN WE
ALSO HAVE -- LET ME SEE --
ALEX, WILL YOU HELP ME OUT?
>> YES.
>> THANK YOU, ALEX.
WE HAVE SET THE TIMER FOR FIVE
MINUTES BEFORE THIS GROUP.
>> WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO BEGIN?
I'M A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 4
AND A MEDICAL RESEARCHER IN
SEATTLE AND I'M HERE TO
REPRESENT THE GROUP THAT SEEKS
TO HAVE A LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
PRIORITY WITH PROTECTIONS FOR
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
MANY ARE WARY OF PURSUING AND
PROGRESSING WITH DRUG LAW
PERFORMED WITH THE REGRESSIVE
CONTINUATION.
THE CITY OF SEATTLE WOULD PASS
A RESOLUTION TO DECRIMINALIZE
AND PROTECT MEDICAL
PRACTITIONERS WHO PRESCRIBED
THEM TO DEMONSTRATE THERE IS A
PUBLIC APPETITE FOR CHANGE.
THE ORGANIZATIONS ARE ENDORSING
GLOBAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS,
INDIGENOUS HEALERS AND LOCAL
DEMOCRATS WITHIN THE CITY OF
SEATTLE THAT WE HAVE SPOKEN
WITH.
PERSONALLY, I'D TREAT SUBSTANCE
ABUSE AND PTSD, UNPARALLELED,
AND THE CITY OF SEATTLE SHOULD
JOIN WASHINGTON, D.C., OAKLAND
AND DENVER IN PASSING THESE
REFORMS AND I WILL PASS IT TO
THE NEXT SPEAKER.
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
>> I MOTION THAT WE EXTEND THIS
A LITTLE BIT.
WE WERE UNDER THE IMPRESSION
THAT IT WAS TWO MINUTES EACH.
I LIVE IN DISTRICT 3 AND I'M A
UNION ORGANIZER AND I SPEAK TO
AS PART OF THE RESOLUTION 2D
CRIMINALIZE PSYCHEDELICS IN
SEATTLE.
MY OWN EXPERIENCE WITH
PSILOCYBIN IS WHY I'M HERE.
IT SHUTS OFF YOUR EGO AND IS
IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE NEGATIVE
VOICE TELLING YOU YOU CAN'T AND
YOU ARE NOT WORTHY AND WILL
NEVER OVERCOME THIS DISAPPEARS
ENTIRELY.
WHEN I TAKE SMALL AMOUNTS OF
PSILOCYBIN, IT FEELS LIKE MY
BRAIN CAN THINK CLEARLY ABOUT
THE OBSTACLES IN FRONT OF ME
WITHOUT DISTRACTION.
I'VE BEEN ABLE TO WORK THROUGH
DEPRESSION, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE
WORKPLACE ANXIETY AND IT HAS
ALLOWED ME TO EXCEL IN MY
CAREER.
WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO OPEN UP
YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS TO CHAMPION
YOUR INSECURITIES?
I'M NOT SAYING PSILOCYBIN WILL
CURE YOUR PROBLEMS, BUT IT
HELPED ME WORK THROUGH MINE.
WE ARE PROHIBITED TO STUDY AND
MAKE USE OF THIS FOR HEALTH
PURPOSES, BUT THEY ARE
CRIMINALIZED IN THE SAME CLASS
AS DRUGS LIKE METHAMPHETAMINE.
THERE ARE FIVE STUDIES IN ONE
STATE DECRIMINALIZING THE USE
OF PSYCHEDELICS.
WHY HAVEN'T WE MOVE FORWARD TO
ABANDON THE ARCHAIC AND
OUTDATED DRUG LAWS THAT FILL
PRISONS AND RUIN LIVES.
SEATTLE CAN DO BETTER AND I
YIELD MY TIME.
>> NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE?
>> I BELIEVE THAT IS ME.
I'M A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 2
AND ONE OF THE COMMENTS THAT I
WANT TO MAKE ON WHAT IT IS WE
ARE TRYING TO DO, WE ARE
LOOKING TO DECRIMINALIZE
PSYCHEDELICS, PARTICULARLY
BECAUSE OF THE BENEFITS THEY
OFFER FOR HUMAN HEALTH AND
WELLNESS.
IF WE DON'T TAKE ACTION TO
DECRIMINALIZE GROWING,
GATHERING AND GIFTING IN OUR
COMMUNITY, IT WILL BE
PERPETUATED WITH HEALTH CARE
THAT IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO
PEOPLE WHO CAN AFFORD IT WITH
OPPORTUNITIES MOSTLY AVAILABLE
TO PEOPLE WHO CAN AFFORD IT.
FOR FOLKS WHO CAN'T, THEY
SUFFER LONGER AND WITH GREATER
DISPARITIES.
OVERDOSE DEATHS, SUICIDE AND
DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY ARE
SKYROCKETING AND ARE
EXACERBATED BY COVID.
OUR COMMUNITIES DESERVE THE
RELIABLE TREATMENTS AND PLANT
MEDICINE IS ONE OF THE MOST
ACCESSIBLE FORMS BECAUSE PEOPLE
CAN LITERALLY GROW THEIR
MEDICINE.
JUST LIKE SEATTLE WITH THE WEED
TO DIVERT THE CITIZENS
SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS THAT ARE
STRUGGLING WITH THE JUSTICE
SYSTEM, OR SEDAN
REPRESENTATIVES HAVE AN
OPPORTUNITY TO KEEP PROACTIVE
AND TO TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT
AND TO STAND WITH OTHER
COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE NATION
TRYING SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
THE EVIDENCE, BOTH SCIENTIFIC
AND ANECDOTAL ARE SUPPORTIVE OF
THIS.
I WILL YIELD THE REST OF MY TIME
.
>> GAIL, ARE YOU WITH US?
PERHAPS JACKSON HOLBERT?
>> YES.
I CAN SPEAK.
YES.
MANY YEARS AGO, I HAD A
PERSONAL TRANS FIGURATIVE
EXPERIENCE WITH PSILOCYBIN
MUSHROOMS THAT RELIEVED A
PERIOD OF SEVERE DEPRESSION. I
REMEMBER GETTING ON THE PHONE
WITH MY MOTHER A COUPLE OF DAYS
AFTER MY EXPERIENCE AND HAVING
HER DEMAND TO KNOW WHAT HAD
HAPPENED TO ME.
YOU SOUND DIFFERENT, SHE SAID.
YOU SOUND BETTER.
SHE HAD BEEN WORRIED ABOUT ME
AND THOSE WORRIES HAD BEEN
JUSTIFIED. I
HADN'T HAD ANYTHING POSITIVE TO
SAY FOR MONTHS.
I COULDN'T APPRECIATE THE WORLD
AROUND ME OR MYSELF BUT I
COULDN'T SEE A FUTURE.
MY PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAJECTORY WAS
BLEAK AND ONE AUTUMN EVENING, I
ATE A SMALL HANDFUL OF DRIED
MUSHROOMS AND HAD AN
EXPERIENCE.
>> THANK YOU FOR THOSE
COMMENTS.
IF THERE ARE OTHER COMMENTS
FROM THIS GROUP, PLEASE SEND
THEM ON.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BJ LAST.
BJ?
>> MY NAME IS BJ LAST AND I'M A
BALLARD RESTAURANT OWNER AND
FOR THE BUDGET REVISER TO
TRANSFER THE 2021 SALARY
SAVINGS FOR PARTICIPATORY
BUDGETING, WITH THE SPD
STAFFING REPORT SHOWING AS PD
WILL HAVE BETWEEN $11.5 MILLION
AND $13 MILLION IN SALARY
SAVINGS THIS YEAR.
THAT'S MORE THAN ENOUGH TO
COVER THE PROVISO IN THE $4.5
MILLION OF OVERTIME OVERRUNS.
NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION.
COUNSEL CAN CONTINUE TO SIT
AROUND AND WAIT FOR THE MONITOR
TO WEIGH-IN.
WE ARE ONE-THIRD OF THE WAY
THROUGH THE YEAR WITH NO ACTION
BEING TAKEN.
BUDGET OVERSIGHT IS THE ROLE OF
THE COUNCIL AND IS THE BEST WAY
TO CREATE PUBLIC SAFETY.
THE POLICE DON'T CREATE PUBLIC
SAFETY.
NO ONE MOVES TO A NEIGHBORHOOD
BECAUSE IT HAS A HIGH POLICE
PRESENCE.
IN AREAS WITH THE MOST POLICE
PRESENCE, THEY AREN'T
CONSIDERED THE SAFEST.
PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IS THE
BEST WAY TO DO THAT AND IF YOU
QUESTIONS FOR THE OVERTIME
CATEGORIZATIONS IN THAT TIER 1
STAFFING AND BUDGET REPORT.
WITH OVER TIME FOR PROTEST
RESPONSE AND EVENTS, 2120 WAS
MOSTLY PRETTY COVID WITH A
NORMAL EVENT SCHEDULE WITH NEW
YEAR'S AND OTHER EVENTS AND
THERE HADN'T BEEN ANY SPECIAL
EVENTS THIS YEAR.
IT SEEMS LIKE LUMPING THEM
TOGETHER IS AN ATTEMPT BY SPD
DO TO MINIMIZE THE AMOUNT OF
SPENDING ON OVERTIME TO RESPOND
TO PROTESTS.
ALSO, WHAT FALLS UNDER
MISCELLANEOUS?
THAT'S THE BIGGEST BUCKET AND
SEEMS LIKE A WAY FOR AS PD TO
HIDE WHAT IT HAS BEEN SPENDING
HIS OVERTIME HOURS ON.
TRANSFERRING THE SAVINGS TO
PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING TO
CREATE PUBLIC SAFETY, THANK YOU
AND I YIELD MY TIME.
>> THANK YOU.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SHOWING NOT
PRESENT AND WE WILL MOVE TO THE
NEXT SPEAKER.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS --
>> HELLO?
>> YOU JUST TOLD ME TO UNMUTE.
>> GO AHEAD.
>> I'M A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 5
AND A MEMBER OF THE BLACK
ACTION COALITION.
I NOTICED THAT COUNCILMEMBER
HERBOLD HAS A BLACK LIVES
MATTER SIGN IN HER PROPERTY.
THIS INSTITUTION HAS BEEN
BRUTALIZED IN THE CITY AND I'M
A THIRD-GENERATION BLACK WOMAN
AND I'M ASKING THE CITY COUNCIL
TO PASS THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF
THE AMENDMENT TO REDUCE THE SPD
BUDGET BY THE FULL $5.4
MILLION.
THESE FUNDS SHOULD BE ALLOCATED
TO PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING.
THE SPD OVERTIME WAS USED TO
RESPOND TO PROTESTERS MARCHING
IN DEFENSE OF BLACK LIVES,
INFAMOUS FOR VIOLENCE AND THEY
SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN AWARDED
THESE RESOURCES.
WE NEED BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY.
SPD HAS A LONG HISTORY OF
OVERTIME AND A HISTORY OF
OVERTIME FRAUD AND CONTINUING
TO FACILITATE GROWTH IN THE
OVERTIME BUDGET IS FISCALLY
RESPONSIBLE AND SHOWS THE BLACK
COMMUNITY THAT YOU SIMPLY DO NOT
CARE.
LAST YEAR, CITY COUNCIL MADE A
COMMITMENT TO SHIFT RESOURCES
FROM SPD TO COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS
AND PART OF THE COMMITMENT WAS
RESOLUTION 119862, TO NOT GRANT
ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO COVER
EXCESS OVERTIME.
SPD DEFIED THE RESOLUTION TO
ASK CITY COUNCIL FOR MORE
MONEY, WHICH THEY GRANTED THE
ADDITIONAL FUNDS VIA 126-1572
REDUCE THE 2021 BUDGET BY AT
LEAST $5.2 MILLION PER THE CITY
COUNCIL NEEDS TO HONOR THE
COMMITMENT TO THE PEOPLE OF
SEATTLE AND HOLD SPD
ACCOUNTABLE BY REJECTING THE
AMENDMENT OF THE 119-8912
REDUCE THE SPD 2021 BUDGET BY
THE FULL $5.4 MILLION.
WE NEED POLICE BUDGET
ACCOUNTABILITY NOW.
ANYTHING LESS THAN $5.4 MILLION
IS A SLAP IN THE FACE OF THE
BLACK COMMUNITY LIVES.
IF YOU DO, PROVE IT.
>> THE NEXT SPEAKER IS JACKSON
HOLDER.
>> JACKSON SPOKE WITH THE
GROUP.
>> SURE ENOUGH.
THANK YOU FOR THE REMINDER.
NEXT SPEAKER LISTED IS DAN
OTTER.
I DO NOT SEE DAN PRESENT.
WE WILL GO TO PETER, NEXT.
>> HELLO.
GOOD MORNING AND THANK YOU FOR
THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK THIS
MORNING.
I LIVE IN DISTRICT 6 AND I'M A
HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.
I'VE GRAPPLED WITH DEPRESSION
FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE AND SPENT 30
YEARS IN AND OUT OF THERAPY AND
ON MEDICATIONS.
IT KEPT ME FROM SUICIDE BUT I'M
STILL DEPRESSED.
MY ADULT CHILDREN ALSO SUFFER
FROM ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION AND
HAVE NOT BENEFITED MUCH FROM
TRADITIONAL TALK THERAPY AND
MEDICATIONS.
I BELIEVE THEY AND MANY LIKE
THEM SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO NEW
TREATMENTS UTILIZING PSYCHEDELIC
SUBSTANCES.
INDEED, ONE OF MY SONS WORK
WITH AN UNDERGROUND THERAPIST
LAST YEAR USING MDMA AND REALLY
BENEFITED FROM IT.
HE WAS ABLE TO FIND AN INNER
PART OF HIMSELF HE HAD NO CLUE
EXISTED AND USED IT TO MAKE
GAINS IN THE PAST YEAR,
ADVANCING IN HIS JOB AND
PERSONAL LIFE.
THE ROADBLOCKS, IF REMOVED,
MORE WOULD BENEFIT WITHOUT
RISKING A PRISON SENTENCE.
PROFESSIONALLY, I OFTEN SEE
PATIENTS WHO HAVE SUCCESS IN
MANAGING CHRONIC PAIN THAT IS
IMPEDED BY ANXIETY, DEPRESSION
AND PTSD.
IT'S HARD TO WITNESS THEIR
SUFFERING AND SOMETIMES VERY
HARD TO HELP THEM.
I LOVE TO BE ABLE TO REFER THEM
TO A QUALIFIED THERAPIST WHO
COULD OFFER PSYCHEDELIC
ASSISTED THERAPY IS ONE OF
THEIR OPTIONS.
DECRIMINALIZING THESE SUBSTANCES
IN SEATTLE WOULD BE AN
IMPORTANT STEP IN THIS
DIRECTION.
HUMANS HAVE USED MIND ALTERING
SUBSTANCES FOR MILLENNIA AND
ONLY IN THE LAST 50 YEARS HAVE
WE'VE BEEN DENIED ACCESS TO
THINGS NATURE PROVIDES THAT CAN
BENEFIT US PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND
SPIRITUALLY.
BEFORE OUTLET, RESEARCH SHOWED
A PATH FOR HEALING PAIN, STRESS
AND ADDICTION.
IT'S TIME TO END THIS SENSELESS
DENIAL AND I URGE THE SEATTLE
SONCY COUNCIL TO PASS A
RESOLUTION TO DECRIMINALIZE
NATURE IN OUR GREAT CITY.
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU, PETER.
WE NOW HAVE DAN OTTER PRESENT.
>> I'M A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT
6, SPEAKING FOR DECRIMINALIZE
SEATTLE TO ADVOCATE FOR
DECRIMINALIZING PSYCHEDELICS IN
SEATTLE.
I'M A PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE IN MY
MASTERS RESEARCH CENTERED
AROUND HARM REDUCTION AND SAFER
USE OF SUBSTANCES.
THROUGH THAT RESEARCH, IT
BECAME QUITE CLEAR THAT
WHATEVER POTENTIAL HARMS ANY
SUBSTANCE CAN CAUSE TO AN
INDIVIDUAL, THOSE HARMS ARE
DRAMATICALLY MAGNIFIED BY THE
POLICIES THAT CRIMINALIZE
POSSESSION AND USE OF THAT
SUBSTANCE.
OUR POLICY IS TO DECRIMINALIZE
USE, MUCH MORE HARMFUL THAN THE
DRUGS, THEMSELVES.
PARTICULARLY THE CASE WITH
PSYCHEDELICS.
THEY POSE MINIMAL HEALTH RISKS
AND HAVE A PRETTY GOOD SAFETY
PROFILE.
YOU KNOW, COMPARED TO OTHER
ILLICIT DRUGS AND EVEN LEGAL
DRUGS LIKE ALCOHOL AND
NICOTINE.
NOT ONLY ARE PSYCHEDELICS
RELATIVELY SAFE, BUT THE
POTENTIAL THEY HOLD THE
TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS IS
IMMENSE AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF
THE QUALITY OF LIFE IS GREAT.
CRIMINALIZATION INHIBITS THAT
POTENTIAL AND WE DON'T EVEN
KNOW WHAT THAT POTENTIAL IS,
BECAUSE OF CRIMINALIZATION.
IN CLOSING, I INVITE ALL OF YOU
COUNCIL MEMBERS TO THINK ABOUT
WHY PSYCHEDELICS ARE
CRIMINALIZE?
WHAT IS THE RATIONALE BEHIND
THAT AND WHETHER THOSE POLICIES
HAVE ACHIEVED THEIR GOALS AND
WHETHER THEY'VE IMPROVED OUR
SOCIETY.
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
NEXT, GRAHAM FILM IN.
ARE YOU WITH US, GRAHAM?
HIT STAR SIX.
YOU ARE STILL ON MUTE.
THERE YOU ARE.
>> CAN YOU HEAR ME?
SORRY ABOUT THAT.
>> NO PROBLEM.
>> HI, EVERYONE.
I LIVE IN DISTRICT 3 HERE IN
SEATTLE AND I'M HERE TO
ADVOCATE FOR THE
DECRIMINALIZATION OF PSYCHEDELIC
SUBSTANCES.
ALL LAWS ARE MADE FOR A REASON
AND GENERALLY, GOOD LAWS
BENEFIT THE LIVES OF THE
CITIZENS UNDER THEIR RULE.
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF DRUGS
WAS NOT MADE TO BENEFIT THE
LIVES OF CITIZENS, NOR DID IT DO
SO.
THE LAWS WERE ENACTED OUT OF
FEAR TO CRIMINALIZE SPECIFIC
GROUPS OF PEOPLE.
THESE SUBSTANCES HAVE BEEN MORE
A LESS SLANDERED INTO BEING
CONSIDERED SOMETHING FOR
DELUSIONAL PSYCHOTIC HIPPIES TO
GET HIGH, RATHER THAN HELP AND
FUNCTIONING CITIZENS MAKE THEIR
LIVES MORE PLEASANT.
MY LIFE HAS BEEN MORE PLEASANT
BECAUSE OF PSYCHEDELIC
SUBSTANCES.
I'VE STRUGGLED WITH SELF
ACCEPTANCE MY WHOLE LIFE.
AS A MASCULINE GAY MAN, I WAS
TAUGHT TO HATE MYSELF.
WHEN I FIRST TOOK PSYCHEDELIC
SUBSTANCES, I COULD ADMIT WHO I
WAS TO MYSELF FOR THE FIRST
TIME.
THE MENTAL BLOCK WHERE I
CONVINCED MYSELF I WASN'T WHO I
WAS NO LONGER EXISTED AND A
WEEK AFTER MY EXPERIENCE, I
CAME OUT AS GAY.
ON THE OTHER HAND, MY LIFE HAS
BEEN ASTRONOMICALLY WORSE
BECAUSE OF THE WAR ON DRUGS.
THE JAMIE McDANIELS FOUNDATION
HAS INFORMATION ABOUT SYSTEMIC
ISSUES AROUND DRUGS.
JAMIE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE AND
IF HE HAD ACCESS TO CLEAN
SUBSTANCES, HE WOULD LIKELY BE
WITH US TODAY AND THE SAME GOES
FOR ANOTHER FRIEND WHO OVERDOSED
. THESE LOSSES WERE PART OF A
MUCH BIGGER PICTURE IN AMERICA.
ALMOST EVERYONE KNOWS SOMEONE
WHO STRUGGLES WITH ADDICTION.
ASK YOURSELVES, DO THESE FELLOW
CITIZENS DESERVE TO BE PUT
BEHIND BARS AND SHOULD THEY BE
SCARED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL
WHEN THE OVERDOSE?
SHOULD THEY NOT HAVE ACCESS TO
PURE SUBSTANCES BUT SCORES
SMACK OFF THE STREET THAT KILLS
THEM?
SEATTLE CAN DO BETTER AND I
YIELD MY TIME.
BETTER NEXT SPEAKER.
>> CAN YOU HEAR ME?
>> THANK YOU.
>> I'M FROM THE HILL TOP
DISTRICT AND I'M HELPING
DECRIMINALIZE NATURE SEATTLE TO
HELP DECRIMINALIZE PLANT
MEDICINE TO MAKE IT AN EQUAL,
EQUITABLE AND ACCESSIBLE OPTION
TO ALL.
WHEN I WAS YOUNG, I WAS
DIAGNOSED WITH CEREBRAL PALSY
AND IT AFFECTS MY LEG MUSCLES
AND CAUSES PAINFUL MUSCLE
SPASMS AND CONSUMING CANNABIS
HELPS ALLEVIATE THE PAIN.
I ALSO HAVE DEPRESSION AND
GENERAL ANXIETY DISORDERS
BECAUSE OF THE COMPLICATIONS
THAT ARISE WITH CEREBRAL PALSY.
CONSUMING PSYCHEDELICS HAVE
SHOWED TREMENDOUS PROGRESS IN
MYSELF AND MY CONFIDENCE.
I HAVE REKINDLED A PASSION FOR
POETRY AND IT HELPS MAKE MY
THOUGHTS MORE LOVING TWARD
MYSELF AND TOWARDS OTHERS.
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JULIA BUCK.
JULIA?
>> GOOD MORNING.
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY
TO ADDRESS YOU TODAY.
MY NAME IS JULIA BUCK AND I'M A
RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 6. I'M
CALLING TO URGE THE COUNCIL TO
PRACTICE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
WITH REGARDS TO THE SEATTLE
POLICE DEPARTMENT BUDGET.
THERE IS A POSITIVE CORRELATION
STUDIED AND PUT FORTH BY KING
COUNTY THAT ADDITIONAL POLICE
OVERTIME LEADS TO A HIGHER RATE
OF INCIDENTS OF POLICE
BRUTALITY FOR THE SEATTLE
POLICE DEPARTMENT'S OVERTIME
HAS BEEN A SOURCE OF
UNACCOUNTABLE SPENDING AND THERE
HAVE BEEN FAR FEWER EVENTS IN
THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE YEAR
AND THE DEPARTMENT OVERTIME
SPENDING SHOULD BE REDUCED FOR
$5.4 MILLION TO PARTICIPATORY
BUDGETING.
IF POLICE PRESENCE WERE
CORRELATED WITH SAFETY, EVERY
ONE IN SEATTLE WOULD WANT TO
LIVE IN THE AREAS WITH THE
HIGHEST POLICE PRESENCE.
INSTEAD, THE AREAS WITH THE
HIGHEST POLICE PRESENCE ARE
CONSIDERED THE MOST DANGEROUS.
THAT HAS BEEN A CONSISTENT
STATE OF AFFAIRS.
SO, PLEASE REDUCE THE SPD BUDGET
BY $5.4 MILLION AND SEND THAT
MONEY TO PARTICIPATORY
BUDGETING.
THANK YOU SO MUCH AND I YIELD
MY TIME.
>> THANK YOU.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS PETER.
PETER?
>> GOOD MORNING.
I'M A SCIENTIST AND USE KEY
PRONOUNS.
I'M AN ABOLITIONIST AND
DISTRICT 4 AND HER IN MIND THE
PUBLIC SAFETY AND HUMAN
SERVICES COMMITTEE THAT SPD
BRUTALIZED PROTESTERS LESTER
AND IS PERPETRATED DECADES OF
VIOLENCE AGAINST OUR BLACK AND
BROWN NEIGHBORS. THE AMENDED
VERSION OF THE COUNCIL BILL
119981 GIVES SPD OVER $8
MILLION FOR NEW EXPENDITURES AND
THOSE ARE OVERTIME DOLLARS AND
SALARY SAVINGS AT CITY COUNCIL
PROMISED TO COMMUNITY BY
PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING LAST
YEAR, AND GIVING THE MONEY BACK
WOULD REWARD THEM FOR THEIR
VIOLENT 2020 TACTICS AND
ENCOURAGE MORE OF IT IN THE
FUTURE.
IT'S CLEAR FROM THE
PRESENTATION TODAY THAT SPD
DOES NOT MADE THE MONEY AND ARE
PROJECTED TO HAVE OVER $11.5
MILLION IN 2021 SALARY SAVINGS.
THIS MEANS YOU CAN AND SHOULD
DEFUND SPD BY THAT AMOUNT AND
THEY WOULD NOT EVEN FEEL THE
CUT.
COUNCIL SHOULD IMMEDIATELY MOVE
TO TRANSFER THE SAVINGS TO
PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING WHERE
THEY STAND THE BEST CHANCE OF
BEING USED TO CREATE TRUE PUBLIC
SAFETY.
COUNCIL CANNOT SIT ON THE
SIDELINES AND WAIT ENDLESSLY
FOR THE CONSENT DECREE MONITOR.
THE BUDGET OVERSIGHT IS YOUR
ROLE AND YOU ARE WELL WITHIN
YOUR POWER TO TRANSFER BUDGET
SAVINGS FROM SPD TO
PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING.
DO THE RIGHT THING.
BLACK LIVES MATTER.
I YIELD MY TIME.
THANK YOU.
>> THE NEXT SPEAKER IS DAVID
HAYNES.
>> THANK YOU.
TIMOTHY LEARY WAS WRONG AND SO
WAS DRUG ADVOCATES.
SEXUAL ASSAULT HAS BECOME THE
NUMBER ONE CRISIS FOR HOMELESS
WOMEN, WITH METH, CRACK AND
HEROIN PUSHERS DESTROYING LIVES
DAILY AND EXEMPTED FROM JAIL BY
COUNCIL, THE MAYOR, THE
PROSECUTOR'S OFFICES BUT THE
ONLY EFFORT WE SEE WITH THE
PUBLIC SAFETY IS RUNNING
INTERFERENCE FOR CRIMINALS TO
MAKE SURE IT'S SAFE FOR THEM TO
MAKE THEIR MONEY.
AS LONG AS THEY PAY THEIR RENT,
IT'S ALL GOOD FOR THE BANK
DONORS AND THE DEMOCRATS.
YOU NEED A WEAPON OR TWO TO
SURVIVE ANYWHERE NEAR THIRD
AVENUE IN THE BUS STOPS
THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
WE HAVE 911 DISPATCH USED BY
THE POLICE CHIEF AS A
PROPAGANDA TOOL TO DEMAND MORE
MONEY FROM TAXPAYERS WHEN THEY
CALL ABOUT AN EMERGENCY CRISIS
AND THEN 911 DISPATCH REFUSES
TO SEND COPS BUT STARTS FINDING
EXCUSES FOR A CRIMINAL DEFENSE
LAWYER WHO TOOK A RACIST
PROFESSORS CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CLASS.
YESTERDAY, A FIGHT BROKE OUT
BETWEEN TWO COMPETING DRUG
PUSHING PROSTITUTES, SPRING
LARGE CANISTERS OF BEAR SPRAY
IN BETWEEN PINE AND PIKE ON
THIRD AVENUE AT THE BUS STOP,
RESULTING IN OVER 20 PEOPLE ON
THE SIDEWALK THROWING UP,
BLINDED AND GAGGING FOR AIR.
THIS IS THE SAME BUS STOP
COUNCIL AND STAFF SPENT $1
MILLION BREAKING OUT.
ONE BUS STOP TO MAKE THREE BUS
STOPS, BRAGGING ABOUT THE
CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.
PLEASE RESIGN FROM THE COUNCIL
AND PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE.
YOU ARE IMPLODING THE FIRST
WORLD.
THANK YOU.
>> OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ALANA.
>> HELLO.
I'M CALLING IN SUPPORTIVE
PASSING CB 119981 WITHOUT
AMENDMENTS.
I'M HERE TO DEMAND
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR VICTIMS OF
POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY, NOT JUST
FOR MINNEAPOLIS AND ACROSS THE
COUNTRY, BUT FOR PEOPLE FROM
SEATTLE.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DEFUNDING
THE POLICE AND THE PROMISES
MADE OVER THE SUMMER, THOSE
PROMISES NOW HAVE TO BE
FOLLOWED THROUGH WITH MOST OF
THE MONEY FOR $5.4 MILLION TO
PARTICIPATE.
FOR THE OVERTIME, AND TO KEEP
YOUR PROMISES, IN TERMS OF HOW
THEY ARE GIVING THE UNLIMITED
BUDGET, OR UNLIMITED OVERTIME
BUDGET.
I'M HERE TO ADVOCATE FOR THE
LEGALIZATION OF PSYCHEDELICS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND I YIELD
MY TIME.
>> OUR LAST SPEAKER THAT SIGNED
UP IS BILL SMITH.
HE IS SHOWING AS NOT PRESENT.
I'M GOING TO GIVE OUT ONE MORE
SHOUT OUT FOR THE TWO SPEAKERS
LISTED AS NOT PRESENT.
TAMMY AND BILL SMITH.
ARE EITHER ONE OF THOSE FOLKS
HERE?
IF NOT, WE WILL ADJOURN THE
PUBLIC COMMENTS AND MOVE ON TO
THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA.
WILL THE CLERK PLEASE READ THE
ITEM INTO THE RECORD?
>> SORRY, ONE MOMENT HERE.
ITEM NUMBER ONE,
INTERDEPARTMENTAL TEAM ON
POLICING AND COMMUNITY SAFETY.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I WANT TO START OFF WITH MY
THANKS AND GRATITUDE FOR
EVERYONE GATHERED AND THE WORK
THAT HAS BEEN DONE THUS FAR.
I INVITED THE EXECUTIVE TO
BRIEF THE COMMITTEE ABOUT THE
PROGRESS OF THE WORK TO
IMPLEMENT THE MAYOR'S POLICING
AND COMMUNITY SAFETY EXECUTIVE
ORDER TO EVALUATE FUNCTIONS AND
SERVICES.
AND, TO IDENTIFY AREAS OF THE
SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT
RESPONSE THAT CAN BE
TRANSITIONED TO CIVILIAN OR
COMMUNITY-BASED RESPONSES.
EXCITED TO HAVE A STATUS UPDATE
FOR THE INTERDEPARTMENTAL TEAM
AND TO EXPRESS THE COUNCIL
REPRESENTATION FOR THE TEAM AND
MY COLLEAGUES ON THE TEAM AND
MANY OF THE REPORTS THAT WE
IDENTIFIED THAT WE WILL LEARN
MORE ABOUT.
TO INFORM THE WORK PLAN FOR
THAT TEAM.
BEFORE WE GO INTO THE
PRESENTATION, WE COULD DO A GO
AROUND AND PEOPLE COULD GIVE
THEIR NAME AND THEIR AFFILIATION
WITH WHETHER THEY ARE WITH THE
DEPARTMENT AND ORGANIZATION AND
THEN WE CAN START THE
PRESENTATION.
THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
JULIE KLINE FROM THE MAYOR'S
OFFICE AND WE HAVE DR. CHRIS
FISCHER FROM THE SEATTLE POLICE
AND I WILL KICK IT OVER TO HIM.
WE WILL KICK OFF THE
PRESENTATION.
DR. FISHER, YOU COULD INTRO
YOURSELF AND PASS IT TO
DIRECTOR LOMBARD.
>> CHRIS FISHER, EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR AT THE SEATTLE POLICE
úDEPARTMENT AND I WILL KICK IT
OVER TO DR. LOMBARD.
>> GOOD MORNING, COUNCILMEMBER
HERBOLD, CHRIS LOMBARD,
DIRECTOR OF THE NEW SAFETY AND
COMMUNICATIONS CENTER.
BACK TO YOU, JULIE.
>> WE ALSO HAVE SONNY NGUYEN ON
THE LINE FROM THE MAYOR'S
OFFICE.
>> MY NAME IS SONNY NGUYEN AND
I USE THEY, THEM PRONOUNS AND I
WILL SPEAK TO SOME OF THE
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
>> FINALLY, WE HAVE JACQUELINE
HELFGOT FROM SEATTLE
UNIVERSITY.
I THINK SHE WAS UNAVAILABLE
UNTIL 10:30 AND I THINK SHE
WILL LOG ON MOMENTARILY AND CAN
GIVE A QUICK INTRO WHEN WE GET
TO HER PORTION OF THE
PRESENTATION, IF THAT IS ALL
RIGHT.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
THE PRESENTATION IS A LENGTHY
AND DENS PRESENTATION.
WHAT WOULD BE HELPFUL, I THINK
-- BECAUSE WE DO WANT TO TAKE
APPROPRIATE PAUSES TO CHECK TO
SEE WHETHER OR NOT
COUNCILMEMBERS HAVE QUESTIONS.
YOU MAY NOT WANT TO DO THAT FOR
EVERY SLIDE.
YOU CAN SIGNAL WHEN A SECTION IS
OVER BEFORE WE MOVE TO THE NEXT
SECTION AND THAT WILL BE THE
APPROPRIATE TIME FOR ME TO
CHECK WITH MY COLLEAGUES ON THE
COMMITTEE TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT
THEY HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT
PARTICULAR SECTION BEFORE WE
MOVE ON.
>> ABSOLUTELY AND I WILL SHARE
MY SCREEN.
THERE WE GO.
IS THAT WORKING FOR EVERYONE?
PERFECT.
GREAT.
>> ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER, FOR
HAVING US ON TODAY.
WE WANTED TO START OFF BY
GIVING A BRIEF OVERVIEW. I AGREE
IT IS A BIT OF AN AMBITIOUS
AGENDA BUT THE THINGS WE WANTED
TO COVER, WILL GO OVER THE
COMMUNITY SAFETY REIMAGINING
WORK WITH A BRIEF OVERVIEW AND
REMINDER OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE
AND WHAT THAT ENTAILS.
WE WILL BRIEFLY TOUCH ON
REINVESTING IN COMMUNITY SAFETY
SERVICES AND WE WILL GIVE THE
COUNCIL SOME UPDATES ON THE UNIT
TRANSFERS FROM THE SEATTLE
POLICE DEPARTMENT AND WE WILL
DO A BRIEF SUMMARY OVERVIEW OF
THE SEATTLE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC
SURVEY WITH JACQUELINE HELFGOT
AND DO A RECAP OF THE COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH
THIS WORK AND THEN DO SOME
DISCUSSIONS OF NEW MODELS OF
COMMUNITY SAFETY INCLUDING A
VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE
CITY OF SEATTLE IS ENGAGING IN
WITH A LARGE COHORT OF FOLKS
FROM ALL OVER THE CITY.
I WILL KICK IT OFF WITH A QUICK
REMINDER OF THE REIMAGINING WE
HAVE THE RED ARROW AT THE END
OF APRIL.
IT LISTS ALL THE THINGS GOING ON
RIGHT NOW AND YOU ARE GETTING A
PRESENTATION TO TALK ABOUT THE
CHANGES OVER THERE.
THE GOAL IS TO HAVE GOOD
RECOMMENDATIONS AND DIRECTIONS
BY THE TIME THE 2022 BUDGET
PROCESS IS UNDER WAY.
WE ARE BEHIND IN GETTING OUR
FINAL REPORT DONE AND WE WERE
AIMING, IN THE EEO, THE MAYOR'S
CEO HAD ASKED THAT IT BE
COMPLETED BY MARCH.
SEVERAL PIECES NEEDED TO
FINALIZE THE REPORT FROM
OUTSIDE EXPERT PARTNERS ARE
STILL MISSING AND WE HAVEN'T
GOTTEN THOSE FROM OUR PARTNERS,
YET.
WHEN WE GET THOSE, WE
ANTICIPATE BEING ABLE TO
FINALIZE THAT REPORT AND
PUBLISH THAT AND SHARE IT WITH
COUNCIL.
WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO COME BACK.
COUNCILMEMBER HERBOLD, TO YOUR
COMMITTEE, TO GO OVER THAT AND
A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL ONCE
THAT IS DRAFTED.
THESE ARE THE DIFFERENT AREAS
THEY HAD ASKED, THE EXECUTIVE
ORDER ASKED THAT COMMUNITY
SAFETY WORKGROUPS AND ALSO
REIMAGINING SPD IDT, THE MORE
IMMEDIATE WORK WE WILL BE
TALKING ABOUT.
THESE ARE THE DIFFERENT AREAS
THAT THE AEO ASKED US TO TAKE A
LOOK AT AND TOUCH ON.
REFORMS, FUNCTIONAL
TRANSFORMATION, TRANSFORMATION,
COMMUNITY INVESTMENT AND THAT
LARGELY LIVES WITH HST AND THE
PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING.
FISCAL TRANSPARENCY AND CLOSE
FISCAL ANALYSIS, MINIMUM
STAFFING ANALYSIS AND OVER TIME
REVAMP.
HERE IS A LIST OF THE DIFFERENT
ITEMS FROM THE EXECUTIVE ORDER
AND RELATED COUNCIL REPORTS
THAT WERE REQUESTED THROUGH THE
2021 BUDGET PROCESS.
YOU CAN SEE WE'VE GOT MONTHLY
STATUS REPORT MEMOS THAT SORT
OF CORRESPONDED WITH MONTHLY
STAFFING, OVER TIME AND PAY
RECORDS. THE FISCAL ANALYSIS,
THERE IS MONTHLY REPORTING THAT
HAPPENS ON THAT TO COUNCIL AS A
RESULT OF THE 2021 BUDGET.
THE 911 CALL ANALYSIS, WE'VE
ENGAGED THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE
OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM TO
GIVE OUTSIDE EXPERT ANALYSIS ON
THAT AND THAT'S ONE OF THE
ITEMS WE ARE AWAITING.
THAT IS IN ORDER TO FINALIZE
THE REPORT CALLED FOR IN THE
EXECUTIVE ORDER.
WE ALSO HAVE A PRELIMINARY SPD
FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT, ALTHOUGH
THAT IS A LITTLE BIT OF A
MOVING TARGET, CONSIDERING THE
DUST HASN'T QUITE SETTLED YET
ON SPD ATTRITION RATES.
SO, WE ARE GOING TO PROBABLY
HAVE TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF AN
UPDATE ON THAT IN ADVANCE OF
IS ALSO INCLUDING SOME OF THE
CONSENT DECREE AND THAT WILL BE
HAVING THOSE THINGS FOLDED INTO
THE FINAL REPORT, WHICH WE
HOPE, ASSUMING THAT WE GET OUR
OUTSIDE EXPERT ANALYSIS, THE
FINAL REPORTS, SOON.
BY THE END OF MAY 2021, WE HOPE
TO HAVE THAT FINAL REPORT WITH
THESE DIFFERENT ASPECTS FOLDED
INTO IT FROM THE
INTERDEPARTMENTAL TEAM.
THIS, I BELIEVE, MAY BE A GRAPH
COUNCIL HAS ALREADY SEEN.
THIS DEMONSTRATES THE PERCENT
CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS YEARS,
BUDGET TERRIBLY SPEAKING.
YOU CAN SEE A HUGE INCREASE IN
THE HST COMMUNITY SAFETY
INVESTMENTS AND A DECREASE IN
THE SPD BUDGET, OVERALL.
THIS IS JUST TO GIVE YOU A
FLAVOR OF THE NET CHANGES FROM
2019, AS 2020 WAS AN ODD YEAR
WITH CHANGES HAPPENING THROUGH.
TO GIVE AN IDEA FOR THE CHANGES
THAT HAVE HAPPENED BETWEEN 2019
AND THIS YEAR'S BUDGET, I KNOW
THAT HST WILL GET A FAR MORE
DETAILED PRESENTATION TO
COUNCIL WITH THESE TRANSFERS.
JUST WANTED TO RECAP THEM HERE.
WE'VE GOT THE TRANSFER OF THE
VICTIM ADVOCATE TEAM FROM SPD
OVER TO THE HUMAN SERVICES
DIVISION AND THE TRANSFER
BUDGET AND THE FULL-TIME
EMPLOYEES FROM THE NAVIGATION
TEAM TO SAVE COMMUNITIES AND
TRANSFER THE BUDGET FOR THE
YOUTH FOR SUCCESS SAFETY
CONTRACTS TO SAVE COMMUNITIES.
ALL OF THOSE HAVE BEEN
TRANSFERRED OUT OF THE SEATTLE
POLICE DEPARTMENT, AS WELL.
AS I INDICATED, FOR MORE
DETAILS ON HOW THE TRANSFERS
ARE GOING AND WHAT THAT LOOKS
LIKE, WE RELY ON OUR FRIENDS IN
THE HUMAN SERVICES DIVISION AND
THEIR PRESENTATION THEY WILL BE
GETTING THIS AFTERNOON WITH
FULL COUNCIL WEIGHING IN ON
THAT.
NOW, I WOULD LOVE TO TURN IT
OVER TO DIRECTOR LOMBARD.
COUNCIL KNOWS THERE WERE THREE
PRIMARY CIVILIAN UNITS, LARGER
CIVILIAN UNITS, REMOVED FROM
THE SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT AS
PART OF THE 2021 BUDGET.
THOSE WERE PARKING ENFORCEMENT
OFFICERS, THE NON-WOODMAN
COMMUNICATIONS CENTER AND THE
OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT WAS FUNCTIONALLY A
STANDALONE UNIT.
NOT A WHOLE LOT CHANGED.
THE 911 COMMUNICATION CENTER,
AS WE CALL IT NOW, HAS DONE A
LOT OF WORK WITH THE BEGINNING
OF THE YEAR AND I WOULD LOVE TO
TURN IT OVER WITH CHRIS LOMBARD
TO WALK COUNCIL THROUGH HOW THAT
IS GOING.
>> THANK YOU, JULIE.
EXCITED TO GIVE THIS UPDATE ON
WHERE WE ARE.
>> I WANT TO PAUSE AND SEE IF
THE COLLEAGUES HAVE QUESTIONS
ABOUT THE FIRST SECTION OF THE
PRESENTATION.
I DON'T SEE ANY RAISED HANDS IN
THE PARTICIPANT PANEL.
PLEASE SPEAK UP IF I'M MISSING
YOU.
COUNCIL COLLEAGUES, I DO HAVE
ONE QUESTION RELATED TO THIS
CIVILIAN REPORT AND I APOLOGIZE
IF YOU COVERED THIS ALREADY.
YOU HAVE AN ESTIMATED TIMELINE
FOR THIS CIVILIAN REPORT?
>> WE HOPE THE REPORTS CALLED
FOR IN THE EO WILL BE THE FINAL
REPORT THAT WE HOPE TO HAVE
DONE BY THE END OF MAY.
>> YOU ARE MAKING A DISTINCTION
BETWEEN A REPORT REQUESTED BY
THE IDT VERSUS -- ARE YOU
MAKING A DISTINCTION, I SHOULD
SAY?
THE ASKED FOR A CIVILIANIZATION
REPORT.
>> I'M SORRY.
I MISUNDERSTOOD THE QUESTION.
I BELIEVE THAT DIRECTOR NOBLE
HAS A NUMBER OF PROVISOS AND
SLIDES AND REPORTS HE MAY BE
SEEKING EXTENSIONS ON.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS ONE OF
THEM OR NOT BUT I KNOW THERE
ARE A NUMBER OF EXTENSIONS FOR
DIFFERENT REPORTS AND REQUESTS
BY COUNCIL THAT WILL BE MADE
SOON.
I DON'T KNOW --
>> WE WILL HAVE TO FOLLOW-UP
SEPARATELY.
APPRECIATE THAT.
OKAY.
LET'S MOVE ON.
>> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER.
A QUICK UPDATE FOR EVERYBODY.
WE CONTINUE TO WORK ON OUR
INITIAL SIZE UP OF THE
OPERATIONS AND THE IMMEDIATE
NEEDS INCLUDED IN THIS
CATEGORY, LOOKING AT POLICIES
AND DISPATCH TYPE CODES AND CALL
PROCESSING PROTOCOLS AND WHAT
QUESTIONS ARE BEING ASKED AND
WHY WE ARE DOING IT.
WE ARE TRYING TO CONTINUE TO
UNDERSTAND THE PICTURE, AS IT
IS NOW, SO WE CAN LOOK TO THE
FUTURE, OR HOW WE CAN MODIFY OR
WHAT WE CAN MODIFY. I
WILL TALK ABOUT THAT TOWARDS
THE END.
YESTERDAY, WE RECEIVED GREAT
NEWS AND WE GOT TO A WIRING
NUMBER.
THAT IS THE NUMBER GIVEN TO US
BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WITH THE FBI THAT ALLOWS US TO
DISPATCH FOR POLICE AGENCIES,
THE SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT,
SPECIFICALLY WITH OUR OWN,
INDEPENDENT OR WIRE I NUMBER TO
TRANSFER OUR ACCOUNTING STUFF.
THAT WAS A BIG SUCCESS FOR US.
WE ARE CONTINUING TO IDENTIFY
AND HIRE TEMPORARY STAFF TO
HELP WITH THE TRANSITION AND WE
HAVE AN INTERIM DEPUTY DIRECTOR
HELPING OUT WITH THE STRATEGIC
ADVISER AND THE LAST POSITION
IS WORK TO HELP US WITH
STRATEGIC PLANNING BEYOND THE
INITIAL TRANSFER.
WE CONTINUE TO WORK ON
TRANSFERRING THE BACK END OFFICE
SUPPORT.
THIS IS MOVING A LOT OF THE
PAYROLL, PURCHASING, FINANCE
AND WHAT NOT TO OTHER CITY
DEPARTMENTS, MOVING OUT OF THE
POLICE DEPARTMENT AND TRYING TO
FIND NEW HOMES WITHIN THE CITY
TO SUPPORT THE NEW DEPARTMENT
WITH THOSE IMPORTANT FEATURES.
WE'VE STARTED TO WORK WITH THE
SEATTLE POLICE OFFICERS GUILD
-- I'M SORRY -- WITH THE
DISPATCHES UNION, LOOKING AT
THE MODIFICATIONS THAT WILL
NEED TO BE MADE TO THE CURRENT
CONTRACT.
EVEN THOUGH IT EXPIRES AT THE
END OF THIS YEAR, WITH THE
SEPARATION FROM POLICE, THERE
WILL BE MODIFICATIONS THAT NEED
TO BE HAD AND WE ARE RAMPING UP
NEGOTIATIONS TO LOOK AT
LANGUAGE OUT OF SEQUENCE TO
HELP FACILITATE THAT
RELATIONSHIP WITH DISPATCHERS.
UPCOMING ITEMS WE ARE WORKING
ON, WE CONTINUE ANALYZING THE
STAFFING AND BUDGET NEEDS TO
CONTINUE THE SUCCESSFUL
TRANSITION TO AN INDEPENDENT
ORGANIZATION AND CONTINUING
THAT WORK WITH THE SEATTLE
POLICE, AS FAR AS PULLING THE
STRINGS APART BETWEEN THE TWO
DEPARTMENTS ON THE FINANCE AND
THE BUDGET.
AS JULIE MENTIONED, WE ARE
WORKING ON THE CITY SPENT WITH A
QUICK SIZE OF TO SEE WHAT OTHER
CITIES AROUND THE NATION ARE
DOING, IN REGARDS TO
ALTERNATIVES TO POLICING AND
TRYING TO GATHER UP BEST
PRACTICES AROUND THE COUNTRY,
AS FAR AS HOW OTHERS HAVE
ALREADY GONE BEFORE US IN
FINDING DIFFERENT WAYS TO MEET
CITIZEN NEEDS THAT DON'T
NECESSARILY INVOLVE THE
RESPONSE OF A POLICE OFFICER.
AND, TO STILL MEET CITIZEN'S
NEEDS WITH GOOD SESSIONS IN
GOOD FEEDBACK ON ALTERNATIVES,
OR WHAT IS AVAILABLE OUT THERE
TO KIND OF BUILD THE ROADBLOCKS
TO SEE WHAT MIGHT WORK HERE IN
SEATTLE.
THE LAST ITEM THAT WE HAVE IS
THAT LAST WEEK, OF COURSE, THE
MAYOR'S OFFICE SUBMITTED
LEGISLATION TO COUNCIL ON THE
PARKING ENFORCEMENT TRANSFER
LEGISLATION.
SO, WAITING TO SEE COUNCIL'S
ACTION ON THAT.
THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR THE
UPDATE FOR RIGHT NOW.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I WANT TO SAY THAT I APPRECIATE
YOU COMING ON, INTERIM
DIRECTOR, LOMBARD, TO DO THIS
REALLY IMPORTANT WORK.
AS IT RELATES SPECIFICALLY TO
THE PARTICIPATION OF THE
COMMUNITY SAFETY, THE
COMMUNICATIONS CENTER IN THE
WHAT WORKS CITY SPRINT, WHAT IS
THE VISION THAT YOU HAVE AND
THE EXECUTIVE HAS FOR THE ROLE
THAT YOUR DEPARTMENT WILL HAVE
IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND POTENTIAL
OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
ALTERNATIVE TO POLICE DISPATCH?
>> AT THIS POINT,
COUNCILMEMBER, WE ARE TRYING TO
WORK ON OUR SIZE-UP SO WE AREN'T
REINVENTING THE WHEEL.
WE ARE TRYING TO DO A SIZE-UP
WITH BEST PRACTICES.
LOOKING AT THE KEY CITIES OF
PORTLAND, OREGON, EUGENE,
OREGON AND DENVER, COLORADO.
THOSE WERE THREE THAT CAME TO
MIND WITH DIFFERENT RESPONSE
UNITS AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF
NETWORKS THAT THEY HAVE
AVAILABLE.
WE ARE TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT
WORKS FOR THEM, THE PROS AND'S
AND IF THEY HAD TO DO IT OVER,
WHAT THEY WOULD DO DIFFERENTLY,
TRYING TO GET BUDGETING NUMBERS
TO SEE SUCCESS RATES.
AT THIS POINT, WHAT IS OUT
THERE AND WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING
AND HOW SUCCESSFUL HOW IT IS
RIGHT NOW TO HELP US PUT
TOGETHER THAT PLAN.
>> THANK YOU.
THE SLIDE SAYS THAT IT IS THE
SECURING OF THE OR I NUMBER, AND
DID YOU SECURE IT?
>> JUST YESTERDAY WE PUT THE
SLIDES TOGETHER AND WE FOUND
OUT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
THAT IS AN UPDATE FROM THE
SLIDE.
>> CONGRATULATIONS.
FANTASTIC NEWS.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM
COUNCIL MEMBERS HERE?
>> FOR SOME REASON, SOMETIMES,
I HAVE THE RAISE THE HAND
FEATURE AND SOMETIMES I DON'T. I
APOLOGIZE.
IT'S HARD TO SEE THE SHARED
SCREEN.
I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION BUT I
JUST WANT TO ENCOURAGE SOME
SORT OF MORE INCLUSIVE
LANGUAGE, AS WE ARE TALKING
ABOUT THESE EFFORTS. AGAIN,
THIS COMES FROM MY PERSPECTIVE
OF BEING SOMEBODY WHO CAME UP
THROUGH THE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
MOVEMENT AND IS PART OF THE
REFUGEE COMMUNITY IN OUR CITY.
I WOULD LIKE TO DISCOURAGE THE
USE OF THE TERMINOLOGY,
CITIZEN, AS WE ARE TALKING
ABOUT WHO WE ARE DELIVERING
SERVICES TO.
IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT PEOPLE
BORN IN THIS COUNTRY, BUT ABOUT
EVERYBODY WHO RESIDES, LIVES
AND WORKS IN THE CITY OF
SEATTLE.
I REALIZE DIRECTOR LOMBARD
TENDED TO USE LANGUAGE THAT
WOULD EXCLUDE SEGMENTS OF OUR
POPULATION BUT I THINK IT'S
REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO MAKE
SURE WE ARE USING THE MOST
INCLUSIVE TERMS AND THE CITY
COUNCIL, A FEW YEARS AGO, DID
REVISE OUR ORDINANCES TO STRIKE
THE WORD CITIZENS FROM MANY OF
OUR LAWS AND REPLACE THOSE
WORDS WITH RESIDENT, TO BE MORE
REFLECTIVE OF THE REALITIES OF
OUR POPULATION HERE IN THE
CITY.
>> SURE.
THANKS.
>> A GOOD REMINDER.
THANK YOU.
ONE OTHER POINT I WOULD LOVE TO
FLAG AND DR. LUMBERG, YOU AND I
HAD DISCUSSED THIS. FOR THE
COMMUNITY SAFETY AND
COMMUNICATIONS CENTER, I'M SO
EXCITED THAT HEALTH ONE HAS
EXPANDED TO A SECOND UNIT, VERY
RECENTLY.
IT HAS BEEN FLAGGED, FOR ME, BY
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND AS
WELL, THE SEATTLE FIRE
DEPARTMENT AND SOME OF MY
COLLEAGUES ON THE COUNCIL, THAT
THERE IS MORE WORK TO BE DONE
AS IT RELATES TO DISPATCHING
MENTAL HEALTH AND BEHAVIORAL
HEALTH CALLS TO HEALTH ONE AND
HEALTH TWO.
I JUST WANT TO SAY,
AFFIRMATIVELY, FOR THE PUBLIC
RECORD, THAT ARE REALLY HOPEFUL
THAT WE CAN FIND WAYS TO
EXPEDITE THAT WORK. I
KNOW THAT THE NUMBER OF MENTAL
HEALTH CALLS, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
CALLS, THAT 911 TAKES FAR
EXCEEDS EVEN THE ADDITIONAL
CAPACITY OF HEALTH ONE AND
HEALTH TWO AND WILL EXCEED THE
CAPACITY OF HEALTH THREE WHEN
THE OTHER EXPANSION OCCURS IN
AUGUST.
I THINK WE NEED TO BEGIN TO
HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT WHICH
CALLS TO DIVERT FROM 911 WITH
THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE
CAN'T, AT THIS STAGE, DIVERT
THEM ALL.
>> THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
>> COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS?
>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
JUST JUMPING INTO RIFF A LITTLE
BIT OFF YOUR LAST COMMENT, I
WANT TO ASK, AS WE LOOK INTO
THE NEW RESPONSE SYSTEMS, ONE
OF THE THINGS IN MY PERSONAL
RESEARCH AND TALKING TO
STAKEHOLDERS AND OTHER PLACES
LIKE EUGENE AND DENVER IS THE
BACK END RESOURCE.
IT'S NOT SO MUCH THE ON THE
GROUND RESPONDER THAT WE
DISPATCH FOR THE MENTAL HEALTH
CALL, FOR THE INTRAVENOUS DRUG
USE IN THE DOORWAY THAT HAS A
DIFFERENT RESPONDER SUITED TO
THAT PUBLIC HEALTH.
IS HAVING SUFFICIENT PLACES
WHERE THAT PERSON CAN THEN BE
DIVERTED TO MEET THE UNDERLYING
NEED.
A LOT OF THE SYSTEMS ARE
INTEGRATED INTO SOME KIND OF
CLINIC LIKE THE STAR PROGRAM IN
DENVER IS INTEGRATED INTO A
SORT OF VERSION OF THE DOWNTOWN
EMERGENCY SERVICE CETER THAT
THEY HAVE.
OF COURSE, INTEGRATED INTO THE
WHITE BIRD CLINIC.
AS WE LOOK INTO THIS, ARE WE
IDENTIFYING WHAT THE BACK END
RESOURCE WOULD BE, REQUIRED TO
MAKE THE FIRST RESPONSE
EFFECTIVE?
BECAUSE, I THINK WE SPEND A LOT
OF TIME TALKING ABOUT THESE
DIFFERENT RESPONSES AND HOW THE
TEAMS ARE MADE UP AND WHAT THE
BACKGROUND AND TRAINING WILL BE
AND THE APPROACH TO ENGAGING
WITH FOLKS.
I FEEL LIKE WE ALSO NEED TO BE
REALLY INTENSELY LOOKING AT OUR
PROVIDER CAPACITY, THE
INSTITUTIONS WE CURRENTLY HAVE
TO SUPPORT THOSE FOLKS AND HOW
THOSE RESPONSE SERVICES WILL BE
INTEGRATED INTO A SYSTEM LIKE
THAT.
WE HAVE THAT AS PART OF THE
BIGGER CONVERSATION BECAUSE WE
FOCUS ON THE VEHICLE AND THE
TEAM THAT SHOWS UP AND LESS ON
HOW WE WILL BUILD THE CAPACITY
FOR THOSE OTHER SYSTEMS.
FRANKLY, I THINK IT'S OUR
BIGGEST EFFICIENCY.
>> WE NOTICE THAT,
COUNCILMEMBER, EARLY IN THE
SPRINT AND WITH CONVERSATIONS
WITH SEATTLE FIRE.
WE REACHED OUT TO THE HOSPITAL
SYSTEM, AS WELL AND BROUGHT ON
REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE
SWEDISH NETWORK AND FROM
HARBORVIEW AS THE LOCAL TRAUMA
CENTER WITH ACCESS TO SOME
PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP.
WE ACTUALLY NOTICE THAT AND
BROUGHT ON SOME OF THOSE
ENTITIES TO THE SPRINT.
>> GREAT.
I LOOK FORWARD TO THE REPORT
BACK ON THAT.
THANK YOU.
>> COUNCILMEMBER, WE'VE GOTTEN
A REALLY WARM RECEPTION FROM
SOME OF OUR HEALTH CARE PARTNERS
, PUBLIC HEALTH CARE PARTNERS,
AND WANTING TO COLLABORATE WITH
SOLUTIONS AND WE ARE PRETTY
EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
>> ALL RIGHT.
ANYTHING ELSE?
>> LET'S MOVE ON.
THANK YOU.
>> I WILL KICK IT OVER TO DR.
FISCHER WITH A QUICK OVERVIEW
OF THE SPD PUBLIC SAFETY
OBLIGATIONS AND TO INTRODUCE
DR. HELFGOT.
>> THANKS, JULIE AND MADAM
CHAIR.
AS JULIE SAID, I WON'T GO
THROUGH THIS SLIDE, BUT PUTTING
IT OUT THERE AS A REMINDER OF
THE OVERALL CHARTER OBLIGATION
TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE POLICE
SERVICES IN EVERY DISTRICT OF
THE CITY.
I DON'T THINK ANYONE NEEDS A
REMINDER, INCLUDING WITH RECENT
MEDIA COVERAGE THAT WE CONTINUE
TO BE WORKING THROUGH HOW WE
MANAGE AGAINST INCREASING
NUMBERS OF FOLKS LEAVING THE
DEPARTMENT AND HOW WE CONTINUE
TO PROVIDE ALL OF THE SERVICES
PEOPLE EXPECT FROM US WHILE WE
DO THIS WORK AND THINKING
THROUGH WHAT OTHER RESOURCES
COULD HANDLE WITH SOME OF THOSE
ASKS FROM THE COMMUNITY AND
úALSO, TRYING TO MAKE SURE, AS
WE CONTINUE IN THESE BUDGET
DISCUSSIONS, THAT WE ARE
KEEPING OUR SPENDING IN LINE
AND MAKING SURE WE ARE ABLE TO
SUPPORT ACTIVITIES, ESPECIALLY
AS THE CITY REOPENS WITH GREAT
NEWS FROM THE CDC.
TO CONTINUE TO SPEED UP, I DO
THINK THAT DR. HELFGOT IS ON
AND SHE IS THE NEXT SLIDE.
>> THANK YOU DR. FISCHER.
>> DO YOU WANT ME TO GET
STARTED?
>> SOUNDS GREAT AND WE
APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE WITH
US.
>> THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN DOING
THE SEATTLE PUBLIC SAFETY
SURVEY EVERY YEAR SINCE 2015.
JULIE, ARE YOU GOING TO DO THE
SLIDES FOR ME?
YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
MOST PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS
SURVEY, PART OF THE MIC ROWE
COMMUNITY IN POLICING
INITIATIVE AND WE'VE DONE IT
SINCE 2015.
IN BETWEEN THE SURVEYS, WE'VE
BEEN DOING FOCUS GROUPS AND WE
DO COMMUNITY POLICE DIALOGUES
FROM MAY THROUGH AUGUST.
SPD HAS BEEN IMPROVING THE
PUBLIC FACING WEBSITE EVER
SINCE 2015 AND THE DATA-DRIVEN
UNIT NOW HAS THE INTERACTIVE
PUBLIC FACING WEBSITE TO
COMPARE THE SURVEY FINDINGS
FROM YEAR TO YEAR.
I SHOULD MENTION THAT THE
SURVEY IS FOCUSED ON THE
GEOGRAPHICAL NEIGHBORHOODS.
I DON'T KNOW ANY OTHER SURVEY
THAT COLLECTS DATA AT THE MICRO
COMMUNITY LEVEL WITHIN ALL 55
SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOODS BASED ON
THE IDEA THAT EVERY
NEIGHBORHOOD IS UNIQUE, IN
TERMS OF CONCERNS ABOUT PUBLIC
SAFETY.
WE'VE BEEN ADMINISTERING THIS
SURVEY AND 11 LANGUAGES EVERY
YEAR AND YOU CAN SEE THE
RESPONSES WE'VE HAD EVERY YEAR.
THIS YEAR, WE HAD THE HIGHEST
NUMBER OF RESPONSES WITH OVER
14,000 RESPONSES THIS YEAR.
IT IS FOCUSED ON NEIGHBORHOODS
IN THIS YEA, THERE ARE ABOUT
3000 THAT WE DID NOT USE
BECAUSE THEY DID NOT IDENTIFY
THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS BUT WE HAD
1,141,010 THIS YEAR AND EVERY
YEAR, ABOUT 50% OFFER NARRATIVE
COMMENTS ON OPEN-ENDED
QUESTIONS WE HAVE AT THE END OF
THE SURVEY AND OVER 60%
PROVIDED THE NARRATIVE
COMMENTS.
YOU PROBABLY CAN'T SEE THIS
SLIDE.
THE SURVEY IS A NONPROBABILITY
SURVEY.
WE WAIT FOR RESPONSES AND EVERY
YEAR WE HAVE MORE WHITE WOMEN
IN A CERTAIN MID-RANGE, MIDDLE
AGE RANGE.
IF SOMEONE WHO IS IN THEIR 20s,
MAYBE A BLACK MALE,
PARTICIPATING IN THE SURVEY, IT
WILL BE STATISTICALLY GRAPHIC
FOR THE CITY.
A 20-YEAR-OLD BLACK MALE WILL
HAVE HIS RESPONSE HE WAITED
WITH THREE TIMES OR FOUR TIMES
FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE WAY TOO
MANY OF.
WE HAVE ALL THE DIFFERENT
DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES.
WE FEEL CONFIDENT ABOUT THE
RESULT OF THE SURVEY FOR BEING
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY,
GIVEN THE LARGE NUMBERS OF
PEOPLE THAT RESPOND, IN
COMPARISON TO PROBABILITY
STUDIES DONE IN SEATTLE THAT
USUALLY HAVE 600 TO 900 PEOPLE
OR SO PARTICIPATING.
>> THESE ARE THE TOP CONCERNS.
WE HAVE QUESTIONS IN THE SURVEY
THAT HAVE IDENTIFIED THE TOP
CONCERNS.
THESE ARE THE TOP SAFETY
CONCERNS DIVIDED INTO THE NINE
INDICES, BASED ON THOSE
CONCERNS.
WE HAVE TOP CONCERNS WITH THE
DATA BEING QUANTITATIVE TO
CHECK THE TOP CONCERNS AND THEN
WE HAVE THE TOP THEMES ON THE
NEXT SLIDE.
THESE ARE THE TOP THEMES AND
THESE ARE BASED ON THE
NARRATIVE COMMENTS.
IN SOME CASES, WE HAVE VERY
LONG NARRATIVE COMMENTS AND THE
RESEARCH ANALYSTS, THE SEATTLE
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, PLOW
THROUGH ALL OF THE QUALITATIVE
COMMENTS AND IDENTIFY THEMES.
THIS YEAR, WE HAD 45 THEMES
GROUPED INTO 15 THEME INDICES
AND EVERY YEAR WE LOOK TO THE
COMMENTS AND SOME YEARS THERE
MIGHT BE NEW THEMES AND LAST
YEAR, THERE WERE 42 AND THIS
YEAR, 45 THEMES.
WE WILL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
THESE ARE THE TOP CONCERNS AND
TOP THEMES THIS YEAR.
TOP FIVE PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS
THIS YEAR WERE POLICE CAPACITY,
PROPERTY CRIME, HOMELESSNESS,
DRUGS AND ALCOHOL AND COMMUNITY
AND PUBLIC SAFETY CAPACITY.
WE SHORTENED THE LAST FEW YEARS
AND THIS YEAR, IT'S POLICE
CAPACITY AND THE COMMUNITY OF
PUBLIC SAFETY HAD TO DO WITH
PEOPLE SAYING -- IDENTIFYING
MORE SOCIAL SERVICES NEEDED OR
MORE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
BEYOND LAW ENFORCEMENT.
THE TOP MOST PROMINENT THEMES
IN THE NARRATIVE COMMENTS WERE
CITY POLITICS, PUBLIC ORDER,
CRIME, POLICE CAPACITY AND
HOMELESSNESS.
POLICE CAPACITY HAS BEEN
CONSISTENT OVER THE LAST FIVE
YEARS, HAS BEEN IN THE TOP TWO
PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS PIT
HOMELESSNESS HAS BEEN RISING
YEAR TO YEAR AND DRUGS AND
ALCOHOL, I BELIEVE, WAS IN THE
TOP CONCERNS IN THE PAST FIVE
YEARS.
WE'VE NEVER HAD CITY POLITICS
IN THE TOP FIVE NARRATIVE
THEMES AND THIS YEAR IT ROSE TO
THE TOP.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE SCALE
RESPONSES, THE UNIQUE THING
ABOUT THE SURVEY IS THAT WE
HAVE THESE SCALES IN THE SURVEY
THAT MEASURE ASPECTS OF QUALITY
AND LIFE AND NEIGHBORHOODS AND
WE ASK PEOPLE TO RATE ON THE
SCALE ON THEIR SETS OF QUESTIONS
THAT ARE MEASURING THESE
CONCEPTS OF POLICE LEGITIMACY,
SOCIAL COHESION, INFORMAL SOCIAL
CONTROL, SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION
AND FEAR OF CRIME.
THIS SHOWS THE POLICE
LEGITIMACY RATING WAS 58.4 AND
THIS YEAR, VERY, VERY SLIGHTLY
DOWN FROM LAST YEAR.
INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL WAS
DOWN FROM LAST YEAR AND SOCIAL
DISORGANIZATION WAS UP FROM
LAST YEAR.
OTHERWISE, THEY ARE RELATIVELY
STABLE FROM LAST YEAR.
YOU CAN SEE THE MEAN SCALE
RESPONSES, OVER TIME, ON THE
GRAPH TO THE RIGHT.
WE ALSO ASKED ABOUT PEOPLE'S
VIEWS OF POLICING. THE SEATTLE
POLICE, THE POLICE IN THE
UNITED STATES, GENERALLY AND
EVERY YEAR, FOR POLICE AND THE
UNITED STATES, YOU CAN SEE THE
RATING.
53 IN SEATTLE VERSUS 50 ON THE
100-POINT SCALE ON THE UNITED
STATES, GENERALLY. I
CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND IF
YOU HAVE QUESTIONS AS I GO, FEEL
FREE TO ASK.
CITY WIDE, AND COMPARISON TO
DIFFERENT PRECINCTS, EVERY
YEAR, DIFFERENT PRECINCTS HAVE
HAD SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT CONCERNS
. IF YOU LOOK AT THE EAST
PRECINCT POLICE LEGITIMACY, IT
WAS THE TOP THEME IN THE EAST
PRECINCT, DIFFERENT THAN THE
SEATTLE CITYWIDE AND IF YOU
LOOK AT THE NORTH PRECINCT,
HOMELESSNESS WAS AT THE TOP FOR
THE PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS.
HOMELESSNESS WAS ALSO ONE OF THE
THEMES, AS WAS CITY POLITICS.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE SOUTH
PRECINCT, CITY POLITICS WAS AT
THE TOP AND VIOLENT CRIME WAS
ONE OF THE THEMES THAT WE
DDN'T SEE IN THE TOP FIVE.
AND, SOME OF THE OTHER
PRECINCTS.
SAFETY IS IN THE TOP FIVE IN
THE SOUTHWEST AND CONTINUES TO
BE IN THE TOP FIVE THIS YEAR.
YOU CAN SEE IN THE WEST
PRECINCT, HOMELESSNESS WAS AT
THE TOP.
IT SHOWS SOME OF THE
DIFFERENCES IN THE DIFFERENT
PRECINCTS.
>> CAN YOU REMIND ME, WHAT IS
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POLICE
CAPACITY AND COMMUNITY AND
PUBLIC SAFETY CAPACITY?
>> POLICE CAPACITY HAS TO DO
WITH A NUMBER OF DROP DOWNS
THAT PEOPLE CAN SELECT, LIKE I
WANT MORE POLICE IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD.
FOR THE POLICE CAPACITY ONES,
THE PUBLIC SAFETY CAPACITY HAS
TO DO WITH NEEDING MORE SOCIAL
SERVICES IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS
AND MORE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS, NOT
POLICE, OTHER SOCIAL SERVICES
IN THE CITY.
>> THANK YOU.
>> CAN YOU GO TO THE NEXT
SLIDE?
I HAVE 10 MINUTES AND I'M GOING
FAST.
THIS SHOWS THE DIFFERENT SCALE
RESPONSES, CITYWIDE.
WHAT IS THE MOST NOTABLE TO
MENTION, ONE OF THE MOST
NOTABLE THINGS TO MENTION, IS
THE DIFFERENCE IN THE POLICE
LEGITIMACY RATING.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE EAST
PRECINCT POLICE LEGITIMACY
RATINGS, IT WAS 50.4 ON A 100-
POINT SCALE AND IF YOU LOOK AT
THE WEST PRECINCT, IT'S 64.7.
THERE IS A PRETTY BIG SPAN, IN
TERMS OF POLICE LEGITIMACY
RATINGS WITH THE LOWEST BEING
EAST AND THE HIGHEST BEING WEST
AND ALSO, SOUTHWEST.
THE OTHER THING YOU MIGHT LOOK
AT IS THE SOCIAL
DISORGANIZATION RATINGS, WHICH
RANGE FROM THE LOW OF 36 IN THE
SOUTHWEST TO THE HIGH OF 51 IN
THE WEST.
IT GIVES YOU A WAY OF LOOKING
AT THESE DIFFERENT SCALES WITH
RESPECT TO THE DIFFERENT
ASPECTS OF PUBLIC SAFETY ACROSS
THE CITY.
>> IT LOOKS LIKE COUNCILMEMBER
LEWIS HAS A QUESTION?
>> LET'S WAIT UNTIL WE FINISH A
SECTION AND THEN WE CAN GO TO
THE APPROPRIATE SLIDES.
>> I PUT THIS SLIDE IN TO SHOW
THE INTERESTING THINGS.
WE DIDN'T HAVE THIS IN THE
ACTUAL PUBLIC FACING REPORT,
BUT THERE IS INTERESTING THINGS
WE SAW BASED ON DEMOGRAPHICS.
WE ARE PLANNING TO DO AN
ACADEMIC ARTICLE WITH A MORE
DEEPER DIVE OF THESE FINDINGS.
WE DID FIND A LINEAR
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGE AND
RATINGS OF POLICE LEGITIMACY.
IF YOU TAKE OUT 90 PLUS, WE ONLY
HAD NINE PEOPLE IN THE 90 PLUS
GROUP BUT IF YOU LOOK BETWEEN 20
THROUGH 89, AS A PERSON GETS
OLDER, THE HIGHER RATINGS OF
POLICE LEGITIMACY.
THE LOWEST RATING OF POLICE
LEGITIMACY, WE HAVE THE
WEIGHTED AND THE UNWEIGHTED.
IF YOU USE THE TRAN30 FAVRE, IT
IS 23 ON THE SCALE FOR PEOPLE
UNDER 20 AS COMPARED TO THE
GROUP WAS 78.5, QUITE A BIG
SPAN OF LEGITIMACY.
THE OTHER INTERESTING FINDING
IS THE BIPAP GROUPS FOR THE
RESPONDENTS IN THE SURVEY RATED
POLICE LEGITIMACY HIGHER THAN
THE WHITE RESPONDENTS IN THE
RANGE IS 57.5 WITH THE WHITE
RESPONDENTS AND BLACK
RESPONDENTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN
BLACK WAS 61.3 AND SIMILAR TO
THE OTHER BIPOC GROUPS.
IF YOU LOOK AT GENDER, THE
MALES RATED POLICE LEGITIMACY
HIGHER, 63.2, AS COMPARED TO
FEMALES, 57.2.
THE LOWEST WAS TRANSGENDER AND
PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T IDENTIFY A
GENDER, WHICH WAS 36.2.
THIS SHOWS THE DIFFERENT SCALE
RATINGS WITH A DIFFERENT WAY OF
LOOKING AT THEM BY PRECINCT. I
DON'T NEED TO GO INTO THIS BUT
THIS GIVES AN EXAMPLE OF HOW
THE SURVEY FINDINGS CAN BE
USED.
TO LOOK AT THE SURVEY WITH THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT
NEIGHBORHOODS IN A PRECINCT, IN
TERMS OF THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF
QUALITY OF LIFE AND OF TALKING
CONCERNS.
THIS SHOWS TWO NEIGHBORHOODS IN
THE SOUTH PRECINCT, HILLMAN
CITY AND SoDo THAT HAD THE
LOWEST AND THE HIGHEST POLICE
LEGITIMACY RATING, CITYWIDE IN
ONE PRECINCT.
HILLMAN CITY HAD THE LOWEST
RATE, 36.2 AND SoDo HAD THE
HIGHEST, 77 .8.
IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE THE
DIFFERENT LEGITIMACY'S.
SIMILARLY, THERE ARE
DIFFERENCES WITH THE TOP
CONCERNS AND THE PROMINENT
THEMES.
YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT ONE.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO ME
TO GO INTO THE DIFFERENCES.
WE CAN STOP HERE.
YOU WANT ME TO KEEP GOING?
>> IF YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER SLIDE.
>> I HAVE A FEW MORE SLIDES AND
THESE ARE JUST EXAMPLES OF
SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION RATINGS
WITH A GOOD IDEA ABOUT HOW
PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT THEIR
SURROUNDINGS WITH GRAFFITI AND
OPEN-AIR ACTIVITY AND LITTERING
AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
THE LOWEST RATING IN THE CITY
WAS SAND POINT AND THE HIGHEST
SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION IN THE
CITY WAS PIONEER SQUARE.
YOU CAN LOOK AT THAT IN
RELATION TO THE TOP CONCERNS
AND THEMES.
PROPERTY CRIME IN PIONEER
SQUARE AND HOMELESSNESS AND
PUBLIC ORDER CRIME.
YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
THIS IS THE INFORMAL SOCIAL
CONTROL, THE DEGREE TO WHICH
PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO CALL THE
POLICE OR JOINED THE BLOCK
WATCH TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
FOR WHAT IS GOING ON IN THEIR
NEIGHBORHOODS.
THESE ARE THE LOWEST AND
HIGHEST RATINGS OF INFORMAL
SOCIAL CONTROL.
PIONEER SQUARE, 27.6 AS
COMPARED TO MAGNOLIA, 57.3.
YOU CAN LOOK AT THAT IN
RELATION TO THE TOP CONCERNS IN
THE TOP THEMES WERE
HOMELESSNESS, PUBLIC ORDER AND
CRIME ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE
UNWILLINGNESS OR THE FEELING OF
HELPLESSNESS TO NOT TAKE
OWNERSHIP TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT
IT, AS COMPARED TO IN A
COMMUNITY LIKE MAGNOLIA, WHERE
THE TOP CONCERNS ARE KEPT
POLICE CAPACITY AND CITY
POLITICS.
WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT ONE.
SOCIAL COHESION HAS TO DO WITH
THE DEGREE TO WHICH PEOPLE FEEL
THEY KNOW THEIR NEIGHBORS AND
HAVE A TIGHT COMMUNITY.
THE LOWEST RATINGS OF SOCIAL
COHESION WERE IN SoDo, 39 AND
THE HIGHEST WAS IN SAND POINT.
AGAIN, LOOKING WITH THE TOP
THEMES, IN SoDo, IT WAS
HOMELESSNESS IN CITY POLITICS
AND SAND POINT WAS POLICE
CAPACITY AND PROPERTY CRIME.
I DID WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT
THIS YEAR, WE ARE DOING
SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN WE'VE
DONE BEFORE.
WE'VE DONE FOCUS GROUPS EVERY
YEAR IN BETWEEN THE
ADMINISTRATION OF THE SURVEY.
WE'VE DONE THE FOCUS GROUPS TO
HAVE A MORE REALTIME WAY OF
COLLECTING INFORMATION ABOUT
PEOPLE'S CONCERNS.
THIS YEAR, WE WANTED TO DO
DIALOGUES AND WE'VE HAD THESE
MEETINGS TO TALK ABOUT THE
SURVEY RESULTS AND TO TALK
ABOUT OUR CONCERNS.
THIS YEAR, WE ARE REACHING OUT
TO THE COMMUNITY AND WE ARE
DOING A REACH OUT, INTERNALLY,
TO SPD, FOR VOLUNTEERS TO
PARTICIPATE IN THESE COMMUNITY
AND POLICE DIALOGUES.
THE IDEAS TO DO IT WITH A
RESTORATIVE FRAMEWORK, WHERE
THERE CAN BE DIALOGUE REGARDING
THE FINDINGS IN THE SURVEYS,
SPECIFICALLY AND OF PEOPLE HAVE
REALTIME ISSUES THAT THEY WANT
TO DISCUSS WITH THE POLICE. I
WANTED TO DO A SHOUT OUT TO THE
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS.
EVERY YEAR, WE HAVE FIVE OR SIX
GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH ANALYSTS THAT WORK ON
THIS PROJECT AND WE HAD 29
RESEARCH ANALYSTS, TO DATE, WHO
HAVE PARTICIPATED DURING THE
RESEARCH ON THIS PROJECT.
MOST OF THEM, WHEN THEY
GRADUATE, THEY HAVE GONE INTO
LAW ENFORCEMENT WITH SPD, FBI
AND OTHER LOCAL AGENCIES.
I THANK THEM FOR THEIR WORK.
THIS YEAR, WE HAD THESE
VOLUNTEERS.
THE NEXT SLIDE IS MY CONTACT
INFORMATION AND MY COLLEAGUE
AND I DO THE SURVEY TO GATHER
EVERY YEAR WITH THE RESEARCH
ANALYSTS.
I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS
OVERVIEW AND I REALLY
APPRECIATE YOU CONDENSING THE
PRESENTATION.
COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS?
>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
I HAVE A CLARIFICATION.
IF WE LOOK AT THE THEMES, LIKE
THE THEMES PEOPLE WERE
RESPONDING TO, IF YOU CAN GO
BACK IN THE SLIDE DECK, I GUESS
-- THE CITY POLITICS THEME,
WHAT IS THAT, EXACTLY?
IS THAT SORT OF A NARRATIVE
THAT WE CAN'T GET ALONG WITH
THE COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR?
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN WHEN PEOPLE
ARE SAYING THAT?
IS IT LIKE THE INTERNAL
PERCEPTION OF DYSFUNCTION?
>> WE DID THE RATINGS AND WE HAD
SUBCODES WHERE PEOPLE CALLED OUT
THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE
CALLOUT PEOPLE BY NAME.
WE DON'T HAVE THAT DEEP DIVE,
BUT WE ACTUALLY HAVE THE CITY
COUNCIL POSITIVE AND CITY
COUNCIL NEGATIVE.
IT WAS OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE.
IF ANYBODY SAID ANYTHING ABOUT
CITY POLITICS, THAT THEY WERE
OBSTRUCTING PUBLIC SAFETY, WE
HAVE GOTTEN THAT EVERY YEAR.
IT WAS MORE THAN WE HAD SEEN
BEFORE.
FOR THE OTHER CITY POLITICIANS,
THAT THEY GENERALLY SAID
POLITICS WERE GETTING IN THE
WAY OF PUBLIC SAFETY?
>> THANKS FOR CLARIFYING THAT.
>> ON THAT NOTE, I REMEMBER
THAT THERE WAS A MENTION -- AND
I MIGHT BE WRONG -- THAT YOU
SOME MORE EVIDENCE OF THIS
SURVEY BEING SHARED ON SOCIAL
MEDIA THIS YEAR THAN IN PAST
YEARS.
IS THAT TRUE?
ARE THERE ANY OUTCOMES THAT YOU
SPECULATE MIGHT HAVE RESULTED
FROM THAT?
>> NO.
I DON'T THINK THOSE ANYMORE. I
DON'T KNOW -- WE'VE DONE THE
SAME OUTREACH EVERY YEAR, THE
SURVEY ADMINISTRATION, THROUGH
THE PRECINCTS INCLUDING SOCIAL
MEDIA AND FACEBOOK.
THE ONE THING DIFFERENT THIS
YEAR, AND I'M NOT GOOD AT
TWITTER -- I HAVE TWITTER AND I
WAS TAGGED AND CONTACTED
DIRECTLY, ACTUALLY CALLED AND
TAGGED AND CONTACTED DIRECTLY
BY SOME PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE
PROTEST, PRO-D FUNDING AND WERE
SPREADING THE SURVEY AROUND ON
SOCIAL MEDIA.
THERE IS NOTHING DIFFERENT ON
OUR END, BUT TO TRY TO IMPROVE
OUR OUTREACH THROUGH DIFFERENT
SOCIAL MEDIA.
PEOPLE WERE ACTIVELY TALKING
ABOUT IT IN SOCIAL MEDIA.
>> THAT IS HELPFUL TO
UNDERSTAND.
>> I WOULD SEND BOTH SIDES.
IT WAS ON BOTH SIDES.
>> MY QUESTION IS WHETHER OR
NOT THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE
SURVEY NOT BY YOURSELVES, BUT
BY OTHER ACTORS, WHETHER THERE
WAS AN ATTEMPT TO EVALUATE THE
IMPACT OF THAT ON THE OUTCOMES
OF THE SURVEY?
>> WE DID -- WE WERE CONCERNED
THAT SOMEBODY WOULD TRIED TO
BOT THE SURVEY AND HAVE A WHOLE
BUNCH OF PEOPLE TAKE IT.
WE ARE ABLE TO GO IN AND WE CAN
SEE IF THE SAME PERSON -- WE
DID A LOT OF CROSS-CHECKING ON
THAT.
BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER AND
NATURE OF THE NARRATIVE
COMMENTS, WE CAN HAVE A HIGH
DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE IN THE
PEOPLE THAT WE KEPT IN THE
RESPONSES THAT WERE KEPT IN AND
THOSE KICKED OUT.
IF THE SAME PERSON WITH THE
SAME NUMBER RESPONDED WITH NO
COMMENTS, WE CAN SEE WHEN
SOMEONE TRIES TO TAKE IT OVER
AND OVER AGAIN, IS WHAT I'M
SAYING.
SO, YES.
>> THE ANSWER WAS, YES, WE ARE
ABLE TO SEE THAT.
>> COUNCILMEMBER MORALES?
>> I'M INTERESTED IN LEARNING
MORE ABOUT YOUR ENGAGEMENT
PROCESS.
YOU MENTIONED A COUPLE OF TIMES
THAT YOU CONSISTENTLY HAVE MORE
WHITE WOMEN TAKING THE SURVEY.
IT SEEMS TO ME A REASON TO
CHANGE UP THE WAY YOU DO
OUTREACH IF YOU ARE NOT GETTING
A MORE REPRESENTATIVE OR MORE
DIVERSE RESPONSE.
YOU MENTIONED SOCIAL MEDIA BUT
ARE THERE OTHER WAYS IN WHICH
YOU ARE TRYING TO GET FOLKS TO
ENGAGE WITH THIS SURVEY?
>> SURE.
WE DO CHANGE EVERY YEAR AND TRY
TO IMPROVE EVERY YEAR.
WE'VE DONE EVERYTHING FROM
REACHING OUT -- THIS YEAR WE
DID THAT A LITTLE BIT
DIFFERENTLY AND WE'VE EVEN DONE
PAPER FLYERS TO THE SEATTLE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT GO OUT TO
THE PARENTS.
WE DO THE SURVEY ADMINISTRATION
AND WE COULDN'T THIS YEAR,
BECAUSE OF COVID BUT
RECONTACTED THE EMERGENCY
SERVICES CENTER AND ASKED THEM
TO GET THE WORD OUT WITH
UNHOUSED PERSONS AND WE'VE
ADMINISTERED THIS IN THE
SOUTHWEST PRECINCT AND
DOWNTOWN.
WE PLASTERED THE FLYERS
CITYWIDE WITH BUSINESS CARDS
AND FLYERS AND WE ARE AT THE
PARKS AND STARBUCKS AND THE
SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
GIVEN WITH COVID THIS YEAR, WE
PLASTERED THE FLYERS, BUT WE HAD
A MORE ELABORATE REACH OUT PLAN
ON THE EMAIL LIST.
NURSING HOMES, THE CHARGOIS
HOMES.
THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITY
ORGANIZATIONS.
IT'S A VERY ELABORATE REACH OUT
EMAIL LIST IN SOCIAL MEDIA LIST
FOR EACH PRECINCT.
ONE OF THE ISSUES WITH MORE
WHITE WOMEN -- MORE WHITE WOMEN
COMPLETE COMPLETE -- THE MIDDLE
AGED RANGE, COMPLETE SURVEYS,
AND IN GENERAL.
IT'S NOT JUST OUR SURVEY AND
WE'VE DONE EVERYTHING WE
POSSIBLY CAN TO DO THAT OUTREACH
, INCLUDING LANGUAGES.
I AGREE THAT WE WOULD LOVE TO
CONTINUE TO IMPROVE ON THE
OUTREACH.
WE ALSO HAVE, OF COURSE, THE
DIFFERENT AFRICAN-AMERICAN
ADVISORY COUNCILS AND THE
DIFFERENT COMMUNITY COUNCIL
MEETINGS.
WE'VE GONE TWO GROUPS AND TO
REACH OUT.
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE I.R.A.
IN EACH PRECINCT IS TO IDENTIFY
COMMUNITY GROUPS FROM ALL
DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES WITHIN
EACH COMMUNITY TO TRY TO GET
THE WORD OUT ON THE SURVEY.
MANY TIMES, I'VE GONE TO SPEAK
IN GROUPS AND WE TRY TO GET THE
WORD OUT THROUGH THE MEDIA,
DIFFERENT MEDIA OUTLETS.
>> YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU WILL
BE DOING A PAPER.
ONE OF MY QUESTIONS WAS ON HOW
DESEGREGATED BY RACE AND AGE
THESE RESULTS ARE?
SO, CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHEN YOU
WILL BE MAKING THAT AVAILABLE?
>> YOU KNOW, IT TAKES QUITE A
WHILE TO GET FROM START TO
FINISH, TO GET THE ARTICLE
PUBLISHED.
WE ARE WORKING RIGHT NOW AND WE
HAVE SEVERAL ARTICLES THAT GET
TO A DEEPER DIVE ON THE FINDINGS
THAT WE WERE THINKING OF DOING
WITH THE ARTICLE ON THE
RESPONSES ON THE PROTEST VERSUS
THE DEFUNDING ISSUE.
THAT ROSE TO THE TOP THIS YEAR
WITH ALL OF THE COMMENTS.
WE ARE WORKING ON IT NOW AND
SHOULD HAVE THE ACTUAL ARTICLE
DONE OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
THE IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS
WILL BE AFTER A FEW MONTHS.
>> THANK YOU.
THIS IS AN ANNUAL SURVEY.
WE APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT
GOES INTO THIS EVERY YEAR.
IN PAST YEARS, AND I LIKELY
WILL DO SO THIS YEAR, I PROMOTE
THE OUTCOMES.
I ALSO LET READERS OF MY
NEWSLETTER NO ABOUT THE SURVEY
TOOL, AS YOU ARE DOING THE WORK
OUT IN THE FIELD.
I'M INTERESTED TO UNDERSTAND --
GIVEN THAT THIS IS AN ANNUAL
SURVEY -- AND, THAT THIS IS
BEEN IDENTIFIED FOR US, TODAY,
AS AN INPUT TO THE CITY'S WORK
AROUND IDENTIFYING FUNCTIONS
FOR NONUNIFORMED POLICING, AS
PART OF THE BROADER, REDUCING
THE FOOTPRINT OF THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT.
AND, THE OTHER TASKS IN THE
INTERDEPARTMENTAL TEAM,
EXECUTIVE ORDER.
HOW DOES THIS INFORMATION FIT
INTO THAT?
>> THAT MAY BE A QUESTION FOR
JULIE?
>> THAT'S A QUESTION FOR
MYSELF, OR POTENTIALLY, DR.
FISHER.
I THINK IT ALL FEEDS INTO OUR
BASIC UNDERSTANDING THAT PUBLIC
OPINION IS NOT A MONOLITH.
IT DOES VARY BY NEIGHBORHOOD
AND WITHIN NEIGHBORHOODS.
I THINK WE PROBABLY ARE OUR --
WELL, OBVIOUSLY, THIS SURVEY
HAS SIGNIFICANT FAILURE.
BUT, IT'S ONLY ONE PIECE OF THE
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WE ARE
DOING.
NEXT, WE WILL HAVE SONNY NGUYEN
WALKING US THROUGH OTHER
ASPECTS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
SURROUNDING THIS WORK.
I THINK THE LONGEVITY OF THIS
SURVEY AND THE NUMBER OF YEARS
THEY BEEN DOING IT AND HOW IT
REACHED, IS SUPER HELPFUL FOR
US TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENT
ASPECTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD
PERCEIVED AS PRIMARY ISSUES.
AND, WHERE THEY SHOULD BE
PLACED OR CONCENTRATED.
>> THANK YOU.
I'M NOT SEEING ANY FURTHER
QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS.
LET'S MOVE ON TO SONNY.
>> AWESOME.
ALL RIGHT.
I WILL START BY ECHOING WHAT
JULIE JUST SAID.
WE HAVE ALL OF THIS GREAT DATA
COMING IN FROM SOME OF THE
NEIGHBORHOOD PUBLIC SAFETY
SURVEYS WITH THE ANNUAL SURVEYS
THAT ARE CONSIDERED IN THIS
WORK.
THE MAIN GOALS OF OUR
ENGAGEMENT FOR THIS SPECIFIC
IDT PROCESS WAS TO DEMYSTIFY
THE SPD BUDGET.
YOU HAVE THIS INFORMATION ON
THE SLIDES.
TO TALK SPECIFICALLY ABOUT SPD,
THERE IS ALREADY A LOT OF GREAT
WORK ABOUT STANDING UP SPD TO
EXPAND THE COMMUNITY SAFETY
NETWORK.
WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE
WEREN'T UNDERMINING THAT
RESEARCH AND THAT WORK AND
FOCUSING ON THE DEPARTMENT, IT
SELLS.
WE CAN MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
WE DO THAT IN A FEW DIFFERENT
WAYS IN THE FIRST THING IS TO
REACH OUT TO THE CITY BOARDS
AND COMMISSIONS WITH FOLKS THAT
COUNCIL AND THE EXECUTIVE HAVE
WORKED TO PUT INTO OUR CITY
SYSTEM TO GIVE THIS EXACT KIND
OF FEEDBACK.
WE MET WITH 10 BOARDS OF
COMMISSIONS AND THE MAJOR
THINGS WE GOT OUR THAT AS WE
MOVE THINGS OUT OF SPD, WE NEED
TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE SET UP
FOR SUCCESS AND WE ARE NOT JUST
DOING BUDGET MAGIC AND NOT JUST
TAKING THE DOLLARS FROM SPD TO
PUT SOMEWHERE ELSE, BUT
REIMAGINING THEM TO MAKE SURE
THAT WE ARE CREATING DEEP CHANGE
AND THAT SEVERAL COMMISSIONS
MENTIONED THEY WANT OFFICERS
TRAINED FURTHER IN CULTURAL
COMPETENCY AND TACTICS OF DE-
ESCALATION ELATION AND TO SEE
THE TYPES OF TRAININGS SHIFTING
AND THEY WANT TO SEE THE
COMMUNITY LED TRAINING, AS WELL
AS PROFESSIONAL TRAINING THAT
SPD ALREADY RECEIVES AND
FINALLY, REMOVE THE SPD
PRESENCE IN THE NAVIGATION
TEAM, WHICH THEY DO ALREADY.
NEXT SLIDE.
WE'VE ALSO BEEN CONDUCTING A
LOT OF LISTENING SESSIONS AND
FOCUS GROUPS WITH SOME OF THESE
LISTED ON THE LEFT.
THIS WORK IS NOT DONE AND THERE
IS NO POINT WHERE WE COULD SAY
WE'VE DONE ENOUGH OUTREACH ON
THE CONVERSATION LIKE THIS.
WE WILL DO THESE LISTENING
SESSIONS AND FOCUS GROUPS UNTIL
WE SUBMIT THE FINAL REPORT AND
EVEN AFTER THAT, WE NEED TO
KEEP THOSE CONVERSATIONS MOVING,
OF COURSE.
THE MAJOR THEMES FROM THE
LISTENING SESSIONS IS THAT
FOLKS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE
TRANSFER OF CIVILIAN UNITS TO
MAKE SURE WE AREN'T BUILDING
ADDITIONAL BUREAUCRACY THAT
DAMAGES EFFICACY AND WE ARE
SETTING THEM UP FOR SUCCESS.
THEY WANT TO SEE OPPORTUNITIES
FOR THE NEW ENTRIES INTO THE
COMMUNITY SYSTEM TO COLLABORATE
WITH THE SPD CURRENT SYSTEM SO
THAT WE ARE BUILDING
INTEGRATIVE COMMUNITY SAFETY
NETWORKS AND NOT DISTINCTLY
PARALLEL SPD TRACKS.
THIS IS THE SOCIAL WORK TRACK
AND THESE SYSTEMS ARE WORKING
TOGETHER TO BUILD UP A TRUE
COMMUNITY SAFETY SYSTEM.
TO FINISH OFF, WE HAVE TO
CONTINUE THIS WORK BEYOND THE
FINAL REPORT, OF COURSE AND WE
WILL DO MORE LISTENING
SESSIONS, PARTICULARLY WITH
LABOR PARTNERS.
WE ARE WAITING ON EXPERT
REPORTS TO COME THROUGH.
THAT IS A QUICK DOWN AND DIRTY
ON THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
WE'VE BEEN DOING SO FAR.
>> LET'S SEE WHETHER OR NOT I
HAVE ANY OTHER HANDS RAISED
HERE.
NOT SEEING ANY.
AGAIN, THIS IS REALLY HELPFUL.
>> COUNCIL HAS SEEN THIS, AS
WELL.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE NATIONAL
PARTNERS WE ARE WORKING WITH,
WITH FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS AND
NEW MODELS OF COMMUNITY SAFETY.
WE INCLUDED SLIDES FOR AWARENESS
AND COUNCIL IS WELL AWARE, AS
FOR THE CITY SPRINT WE ARE
PARTICIPATING IN, AN EIGHT WEEK
PROGRAM WHERE IT WALKS US
THROUGH AND HELPS US TO
FACILITATE THE CITY AND EXPLORE
ALTERNATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE
MODELS AND WHAT MIGHT WORK FOR
SEATTLE WITH LESSONS LEARNED AND
INFORMATION FROM OTHER CITIES.
WE HAVE A VERY BROAD COHORT IN
THE CITY OF SEATTLE WITH A LOT
OF PEOPLE INTERESTED IN BEING
INVOLVED IN THIS CONVERSATION.
IT'S A NONEXHAUSTIVE LIST AND
WE'VE ADDED ADDITIONAL SEATTLE
MEMBERS TO THE COHORT, CALLING
IN FOR EACH OF THESE SESSIONS.
I HAVE A GENERAL OVERVIEW OF
WHAT THE DIFFERENT SESSIONS
ARE.
THAT IS THE WRAP UP.
I WILL STOP THERE AND WE ARE
AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY
QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO
ANYTHING.
>> GREAT.
THANK YOU.
I WANT TO THANK YOU, JULIE, FOR
MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR SO MANY
OF THE INTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS TO
PARTICIPATE IN WHAT WORKS CITY
SPRINT BUT THE EXTERNAL
PARTNERS.
AS A PARTICIPANT, I'M FINDING
THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF -- FOR
OTHER CITIES -- A LOT OF
VOICES, EXTERNAL TO GOVERNMENT,
THAT ARE PARTICIPATING AND IT'S
REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE HEAR
THEIR PERSPECTIVES IN OTHER
CITIES AND IN OUR OWN, AS WELL.
GOING BROAD IS SUPER USEFUL TO
OUR END PRODUCT.
LOOKING TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT
THERE ARE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.
I SEE NONE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
>> THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR
HAVING US, COUNCILMEMBER
HERBOLD.
ONCE OUR IDT REPORT IS
FINALIZED, WE WILL BE HAPPY TO
COME BACK AND WALK THROUGH THAT
WITH YOU.
>> LOOK FORWARD TO IT.
THANK YOU.
>> WILL THE CLERK READ AGENDA
ITEM 2 INTO THE RECORD?
>> SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT
QUARTERLY FINANCE AND STAFFING
REPORTS.
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
WE HAVE WITH US, GREG DOSS AND
ALY PENNUCCI FROM SOUND SOUL
COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF.
THE QUARTERLY REPORTS SEEM LIKE
THE MOST PRODUCTIVE APPROACH
FOR UPDATING COUNCIL MEMBERS.
MANY OF THESE REPORTS REPORTS
WE RECEIVE MONTHLY AND WE
APPRECIATE THE WORK OF GREG DOSS
AND ALY PENNUCCI TO FIND A WAY
TO TRANSMIT THAT INFORMATION TO
US IN A WAY THAT IS EFFICIENT
AND, HOPEFULLY, WILL BE
EFFECTIVE TO OUR EFFORTS TO
SCRUTINIZE THE SEATTLE POLICE
DEPARTMENT BUDGET.
BEFORE I TURN IT OVER, THE
OPENING REMARKS, THAT THE 2021
SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT
HIRING PLAN IS FULLY FUNDED IN
THE BUDGET THAT IS ADOPTED BY
THE COUNCIL IN NOVEMBER.
AGAIN, AS THIS DISCUSSION IS
INTRINSIC TO PART OF THIS
DISCUSSION, IT'S THE CHALLENGES
ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED
STAFFING.
GIVEN THAT IT IS GOING TO BE
REFLECTED, THAT REALITY IS
REFLECTED THROUGHOUT THESE
REPORTS AND I THINK IT'S REALLY
IMPORTANT, AS A LEVEL SETTING
EFFORTS, THAT THE COUNCIL FULLY
FUNDED THE 2021 HIRING PLAN
DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS.
WITH THAT, I TURN IT OVER TO
GREG.
>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
GOOD MORNING.
AS THE CHAIR JUST SAID, I WILL
PRESENT TO YOU THE QUARTER ONE
SPD BUDGET AND STAFFING REPORT
AND THERE IS A LOT OF
INFORMATION.
WE'VE GOT ABOUT 25 SLIDES.
I'M GOING TO TRY TO GO THROUGH
IT AS QUICKLY AS I CAN.
IN SOME WAYS, IT IS DATA
INTENSIVE.
I ASKED THAT YOU JUMP UP AND
VERBALLY LET ME KNOW IF YOU
HAVE A QUESTION BECAUSE I MAY
NOT BE ABLE TO SEE IT.
ALLIE, WOULD YOU MIND FLIPPING
TO THE FIRST SLIDE?
WE WILL COVER FOUR AREAS AND
EACH IS GUIDED BY A COUNCIL
STATEMENT OF LEGISLATIVE ATTACK
AND I WILL GO OVER THEM
QUICKLY.
SPD ZERO ZERO ONE A ZERO ZERO
THREE IS ON FINANCIAL REPORTING
AND THE COUNCIL HAD REQUESTED
MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORTS THAT
REQUIRED EXTENSIVE AND WENT
OVER VARIOUS BUDGET CATEGORIES
AND ALSO, ON EXCESS PAY,
MEANING PAY RECEIVED OVER
$150,000 AND TO REQUEST FOR
PRETTY MUCH EVERY SINGLE
EXPENDITURE SPD MAKES.
WE WILL GO INTO A NUMBER OF
THESE DATA TODAY AND WILL NOT
BE GOING INTO EXCESS PAY
REPORTING BECAUSE WE MOSTLY ARE
FOCUSING ON THE FIRST QUARTER
AND WE ARE NOT GETTING TO THE
POINT WHERE MANY FOLKS IN SPD
WILL BE APPROACHING $150,000 IN
COMPENSATION, WITH THE
EXCEPTION OF COMMAND STAFF AND
SOME CIVILIANS.
IT'S THE CASE WHERE OVERTIME
PLAYS INTO COMPENSATION FOR THE
OFFICERS.
WE ARE EARLY IN THE YEAR TO
KNOW HOW THAT IS PROGRESSING.
WE WILL TOUCH AT MATT TODAY AND
WON'T TOUCH TOO DEEPLY ON EVERY
SINGLE FINANCIAL EXPENDITURE.
THERE ARE WELL OVER 1000 IN THE
FIRST QUARTER.
WHAT I WOULD MENTION IS THAT
COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE VOICED
INTEREST IN EXPENDITURES BEING
MADE AROUND BODY ARMOR AND
WEAPONS AND THINGS THAT MIGHT
BE CLASSIFIED AS
MILITARIZATION.
THERE IS A DEMILITARIZATION
RESPONSE WITH THE DEPARTMENT
SENDING THAT IN THE NEXT MONTH
AND HOPEFULLY, THAT WILL COVER
MANY OF THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
SPD EXPENDITURES IN THOSE
AREAS.
IF IT DOES NOT, THE COMMITTEE
CAN DIVE INTO IT LATER BUT
GIVEN ALL THE THINGS WE HAVE TO
COVER TODAY, WE WON'T MOVE INTO
THAT AREA.
THE SECOND THING WE WILL COVER
WILL BE THE USE OF OVERTIME.
THE THIRD THING WE WILL COVER
WILL BE STAFFING. WHEN WE GO
INTO STAFFING, WE WILL GO INTO
THE PRECINCT STAFFING AND 911
RESPONSE AND THE FOURTH AND WE
COVER WILL BE RESPONSE TIME AND
AS WELL, WE WILL LOOK AT
PRIORITY CALL RESPONSES. THE
WAY SPD IS TRYING TO TRIAGE, IF
YOU WILL, IT'S 911 RESPONSES SO
THEY CAN, AS BEST AS THEY CAN,
MAINTAIN QUALITY 911 RESPONSE
TIMES.
IN A QUESTIONS ON THAT SLIDE,
PLEASE SHOUT OUT.
OTHERWISE, I WILL MOVE INTO THE
PRESENTATION.
OKAY.
WE WILL START OFF WITH FINANCE
MONITORING.
WE START OUT WITH THE BIGGEST
EXPENDITURES.
COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE PROBABLY
USED TO HEARING ME TALK ABOUT
HOW THE BUDGET IS PRETTY MUCH
ALL SALARY, BENEFITS, OVER TIME
AND ALLOCATED COSTS.
THAT'S A REMINDER THAT IT IS
PRETTY MUCH THE CASE.
WITH THIS SLIDE IS SHOWING IS
THE LARGEST EXPENDITURES, THOSE
THREE AND THEN IT SHOWS THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FIRST
QUARTER OF 2020 AND THE FIRST
QUARTER OF 2021.
AS YOU CAN SEE, AT A SORT OF
HIGH LEVEL, SPENDING HAS GONE
DOWN BY 11% FROM LAST YEAR,
FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT.
THE OTHER BIG PICTURE TAKE AWAY
FROM THIS SLIDE IS THAT OVER
TIME HAS HAVE. IT WAS ABOUT 8%
OF EXPENDITURES THIS TIME LAST
YEAR AND THIS YEAR IT IS 4%.
THERE IS A PANDEMIC GOING ON
THAT WAS NOT GOING ON IN
JANUARY AND FEBRUARY OF LAST
YEAR AND THAT IS SOME OF THE
REASON THAT THAT PIECE HAS GONE
DOWN BUT NOT THE ONLY REASON.
DIVING DEEPER, WE WILL MOVE TO
THE NEXT SLIDE.
THE NEXT SLIDE IS THE LARGER
EXPENDITURES AND HOW THEY LOOK
AGAINST BUDGET.
YOU ARE SEEING ON THE LEFT-HAND
SIDE, THE 2020 ADOPTED BUDGET
IN Q1.
IT GIVES YOU A PICTURE OF WHAT
THE DEPARTMENT IS SPENDING AND
HOW IT MEASURES AGAINST THE
BUDGET.
I WOULD NOTE THAT IT WOULD BE
REALLY EASY TO SAY THIS IS A
QUARTERLY BUDGET AND THEREFORE,
EVERYTHING THAT THE DEPARTMENT
IS SPENDING RIGHT NOW SHOULD BE
ABOUT 25% OF THEIR TOTAL
BUDGETS.
NOT NECESSARILY TRUE WITH SPD
FOR TWO REGIONS.
THE FIRST IS THAT A LOT OF THE
SPD WORK IS SEASONAL AND WHEN
WE TALK ABOUT OVERTIME,
OVERTIME IS NOT SOMETHING THAT
THEY SHOULD REALLY BE AT 25%
OF, AT THIS POINT IN TIME OF
SOMETHING THAT BUILDS UP OVER
THE SUMMER TIME.
EVEN SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS
SALARY AND BENEFITS, YOU WOULD
THINK IT WOULD BE SOMETHING
EASILY DIVISIBLE BY FOUR FOR
25%.
IN THIS CASE, THE CITY PAY
CYCLES ARE SUCH THAT THROUGH
MARCH, ACTUALLY, WE WOULD EXPECT
SPD WOULD HAVE SPENT ABOUT 27%
OF ITS BUDGET ON SALARY AND
BENEFITS.
WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT?
BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT
THEY'VE ONLY SPENT 25% OF THEIR
BUDGET ON SALARY AND BENEFITS,
SHOWS THAT THERE IS A SALARY
SAVINGS.
AS WE GET FURTHER INTO THE
PRESENTATION, WE WILL TALK
ABOUT THAT SALARY SAVINGS.
SO, AS I SAID EARLIER, THE LAST
THING ON THIS SLIDE IS, AS YOU
CAN SEE, OVERTIME IS ABOUT HALF
OF WHAT IT WAS LAST YEAR.
IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS ON
THIS SLIDE, I WILL KEEP
MOTORING THROUGH.
OKAY.
SO, THE NEXT SLIDE IS SHOWING,
AT A HIGH LEVEL, ALL OF THE
OTHER EXPENDITURES THAT SPD IS
MAKING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A VERY LOW
PERCENTAGE OF BUDGETS. THE BIG
THREE CATEGORIES ARE MAKING UP
96 OR 97% OF EXPENDITURES AND
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING
ELSE BEING A WHOPPING 3% OR 4%
OF EXPENDITURES.
WE HAVE A VARIETY OF CATEGORIES
AND I THINK THE COUNCIL IS
MOSTLY FAMILIAR WITH THE BUDGET
EXERCISES LAST SUMMER BUT I WILL
HIT THEM AT A HIGH LEVEL.
WHAT YOU ARE SEEING BEFORE YOU
IS SERVICES, CONSULTANT, LEGAL
AND OTHER AND IT IS THE SECOND
CATEGORY.
I WILL START WITH SEPARATION
PAY.
IT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU THINK IT
IS, IT IS THE PAY THE
DEPARTMENT PROVIDES TO OFFICERS
WHO HAVE SEPARATED OR ARE
LEAVING SERVICE.
THIS IS COMPENSATION THE
OFFICERS ARE OWED WHEN THEIR
VACATION IS PAID OUT OR COMP
TIME IS PAID OUT.
AS MOST FOLKS ARE AWARE, THERE
HAVE BEEN A LARGE NUMBER OF
OFFICERS LEAVING THE DEPARTMENT
RECENTLY AND THAT'S WHY YOU SEE
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Q1 OF
2020 AND Q1 OF 2021 WITH
SEPARATION PAY A SIGNIFICANT
EXPENDITURE FOR THE DEPARTMENT
AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
WE WILL BE DIVING INTO THAT, AS
WELL.
REALLY QUICKLY ON THE OTHER
CATEGORIES, JUST TO REFRESH
EVERYONE'S MEMORY, THE SERVICES
CONSULTANT, LEGAL AND OTHER
CATEGORY, THE ORANGE CATEGORY,
THEY ARE MOSTLY CONTRACTS FOR
SERVICE SPD HAS.
THE LARGEST IS THE RED LIGHT
CAMERAS AND THAT IS WELL OVER
HALF OF THAT ENTIRE CATEGORY.
THE OTHER CHARGES, WHICH IS THE
ONE AT THE VERY BOTTOM, THE
GREEN CATEGORY, THAT PAYS FOR
THINGS LIKE BUILDING RENTALS
AND THE OPA OFFICE FOR THE
EVIDENCE WAREHOUSE AND IT ALSO
PAYS FOR THINGS LIKE FUEL AND
THE ENTIRE BUDGET, NOT VERY
BIG, 1.2% OF THE ENTIRE ADOPTED
BUDGET.
DISCRETIONARY PURCHASES ARE
USED TO BUY UNIFORMS, GUNS,
OFFICE SUPPLIES AND EVEN WATER
SUPPLIED FOR SPECIAL EVENTS.
THAT PARTICULAR SLICE OF THE
ENTIRE BUDGET IS REALLY SMALL,
A LITTLE OVER 80%.
THEN, TRAVEL AND TRAINING IS
PRETTY MUCH WHAT IT SOUNDS
LIKE.
THAT ONE IS BUDGETED AT ABOUT
$900,000 FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR,
LESS THAN 1%.
ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE LET ME
KNOW.
I WILL MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
OKAY.
LET'S MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
WHAT YOU ARE SEEING HERE IS A
BREAKDOWN OF HOW THOSE
EXPENDITURES LOOK AGAINST THE
BUDGET.
AGAIN, ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE,
YOU SEE Q1 OF 2020 AND THE
RIGHT IS Q1 OF 2021 WITH
SEPARATION PAY NOT SO GOOD.
SEPARATION PAY WAS BUDGETED
THIS YEAR AT $898,000 AND AS
YOU CAN SEE, THE SEPARATION PAY
THROUGH THE FIRST QUARTER IS
ALREADY $1.5 MILLION AND THAT
IS THE ONLY AREA RUNNING OVER
BUDGET.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS RELATIVELY
UNDER BUDGET.
CAPITOL IS A BIT OF AN ANOMALY.
CAPITOL IS EXPENDITURES AROUND
THINGS LIKE I.T.
AND YOU WOULD THINK AN AGENCY
LIKE SPD DOESN'T HAVE CAPITAL
AND THAT IS LARGELY TRUE, $6000
OF THINGS THAT GET CATEGORIZED
AS I.T.
AND OTHER THINGS THAT MIGHT
FALL INTO A CAPITAL DESCRIPTION
BUT AREN'T BRICK-AND-MORTAR.
THE OTHER AREAS HAVE
DISCRETIONARY PURPOSES AND
EVERYTHING IS DOWN COMPARED TO
2020.
ONE OF THE REASONS THAT IS
SIGNIFICANT, NOT JUST DOWN
NUMERICALLY, BUT WITH
DISCRETIONARY PURCHASES, DOWN
$876,000.
LAST YEAR IT WAS $981,000.
IT'S DOWN NUMERICALLY AND WHAT
IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE IS THAT
THESE CATEGORIES RECEIVED, MANY
OF THEM, REDUCTIONS IN THE
ADOPTED BUDGET.
THE FACT THAT SPD IS RUNNING
UNDER BUDGET, RUNNING UNDER A
BUDGET THAT WAS REDUCED.
THAT IS THEIR ATTEMPT TO BE
GOOD FOR SCHOOL STEWARDS.
IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS ON
THAT ONE, I'M GOING A LOT
FASTER THAN I THOUGHT I WAS
GOING TO.
LET'S MOVE TO OVERTIME.
ALL RIGHT.
AS I DISCUSSED A MOMENT AGO,
OVERTIME SPENDING IS DOWN
CONSIDERABLY IN 2021, ABOUT HALF
OF WHAT IT WAS LAST YEAR.
IN THIS CHART, WHICH YOU CAN
SEE IS THE FIRST QUARTER OF
2020 WHEN COMPARED WITH THE
FIRST QUARTER OF 2019 IN THE
FIRST QUARTER OF 2020.
THESE ARE THE SMALLER OVERTIME
EXPENDITURE AREAS AND WE ARE
MEASURING IN HOURS, NOT
DOLLARS.
WHAT YOU CAN SEE IS THAT, ONCE
AGAIN, OVERTIME IS DOWN, AS YOU
WOULD EXPECT IN JUST ABOUT
EVERY SINGLE AREA.
IT'S DISPROPORTIONATELY DOWN IN
SOME AREAS LIKE CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATIONS AND YOU CAN SEE
WHEN COMPARING AGAINST 2019 OR
2020, IT IS HALF, A LITTLE MORE
THAN HALF, WEIGH DOWN.
YOU CAN SEE THAT AGAINST THE
MISCELLANEOUS CATEGORY IN 2021
AND 2020, IT IS TINY.
I THINK THERE WAS A QUESTION
DURING PUBLIC TESTIMONY ABOUT
WHAT IS IN THAT MISCELLANEOUS
CATEGORY AND WHAT IS IN THE
CATEGORY, WITH THE
PRESENTATION, IT'S NOT A LOT.
THERE ARE EMPHASIS PATROLS
WHICH THE CITY HAD FUNDED AT A
HIGHER LEVEL IN 2020 AND THE
DEPARTMENT USED A LOT OF
EMPHASIS HOURS AND 2020 AND THE
FIRST QUARTER BECAUSE THAT IS
WHEN THE SHOOTING HAPPENED ON
PIKE AND PINE.
THAT'S WHY THE GREEN 2020 BAR
IS SO HIGH.
THIS YEAR, IN THE 2021 BUDGET,
EMPHASIS PATROLS WERE LARGELY
DEFUNDED AND THERE IS NOT
REALLY ANY SPENDING OR USE OF
HOURS THERE.
OTHER CATEGORIES IN
MISCELLANEOUS ARE THE MAYOR'S
SECURITY AND COURT.
BOTH OF THOSE ARE RELATIVELY
SMALL CATEGORIES, COMPARED TO
ALL THE OTHER OVERTIME
CATEGORIES.
HOPEFULLY, THAT DEMYSTIFIES, A
BIT, WHAT IS IN THE
MISCELLANEOUS CATEGORY.
>> THANK YOU.
I HAVE ONE OTHER QUESTION THAT
WAS PROMPTED FROM PUBLIC
COMMENT.
ANTICIPATING THE QUESTION ABOUT
THE MISCELLANEOUS CATEGORY,
THERE WAS A COMMENT ABOUT THE
SPD OVERTIME DURING THE FIRST
QUARTER OF 2021 COMPARED TO
2020 AND 2019 IN THE CHART
REGARDING THE CATEGORIES THAT
ARE LOWER WITH EVENTS THAT
INCLUDE DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE
PUBLIC COMMENT NOTED THAT THE
FIRST QUARTER OF 2020 WOULD BE
LARGE SCALE PROTESTS.
FOR THE FUTURE QUARTERLY
REPORTS?
>> LET'S MOVE TO THAT SLIDE.
THAT IS THE NEXT ONE.
WHAT YOU ARE SEEING HERE IS
THAT OVERTIME HOURS ARE BROKEN
DOWN BY THE THREE CATEGORIES
THAT ACTUALLY ARE TYPICALLY
LARGER.
BUT, THESE ARE PARTICULARLY
INTERESTING BECAUSE THESE ARE
AREAS AFFECTED BY THE PANDEMIC
AND THESE ARE AREAS OF COUNCIL
INTEREST.
AS YOU MENTIONED, THE SPENDING
OR USE SOME HOURS AROUND
DEMONSTRATIONS.
WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT,
COUNCILMEMBER HERBOLD, I THINK
IT'S THE MIDDLE AREA THAT SAYS
EVENTS INCLUDING SEATTLE
CENTER.
WHAT IS NOTABLE ABOUT THIS, THE
DEPARTMENT CLASSIFIES THESE
HOURS AS EVENTS, BUT THEY
INCLUDE DEMONSTRATION
EXPENDITURES.
WHAT YOU ARE SEEING HERE, IN
2021, THERE WERE HOURS USED FOR
DEMONSTRATIONS.
THEY WERE NOT FOR EVENTS AND
THERE WERE OBVIOUSY, IN 2021,
NO EVENTS THAT SPD HAD TO STAFF
BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC BUT THE
GRAYBAR PRETTY MUCH EXCLUSIVELY
REPRESENTS DEMONSTRATIONS.
THERE WERE, I THINK, $17,000 OR
MORE SPENT FOR A SNOW EVENT BUT
THAT AREA WAS FOR
DEMONSTRATIONS AND IT ADDS UP
TO, I BELIEVE, $345,000, THAT
GRAYBAR.
IS THAT GETTING AT YOUR
QUESTION?
>> IT ABSOLUTELY IS.
THANK YOU.
>> THE OTHER THING I WOULD
POINT OUT ABOUT THE OVERTIME
HOURS IN THESE THREE AREAS IS
THAT PATROL OPERATIONS IS UP IN
2021 AND THAT IS THE ONLY AREA
OF OVERTIME SPENDING OR
OVERTIME USE, IN THIS CASE,
HOURS, THAT IS UP ANYWHERE IN
THE DEPARTMENT AND IT WAS HIGH
LAST YEAR. 911 RESPONSE ACROSS
THESE THREE AREAS IN 2019, 2020
AND 2021, THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS
DOESN'T CHANGE A LOT AND WE
WILL GET INTO THAT WITH
DEPLOYABLE STAFF.
STAFF THAT CAN BE DEPLOYED IS
SOMETHING DIFFERENT THESE DAYS
THAN IN PRIOR YEARS AND THAT
MAY BE PARTIALLY WHAT IS
DRIVING THE OVERTIME USE AND
THERE MAY BE OTHER FACTORS AND
STANDARDS THE DEPARTMENT IS
PUTTING INTO PLACE.
WE WILL GET INTO THAT LATER.
SHALL I MOVE ON?
>> PLEASE.
SPD STAFFING, SO -- SPD DOES NOT
PROVIDE PROJECTIONS ANYMORE IN
THE STAFFING REPORTS.
HISTORICALLY, SPD HAS PROVIDED
STAFFING REPORTS THAT SHOW
ACTUALS TO DATE AND THEN THE
PROJECT ANYWHERE BETWEEN ONE TO
TWO YEARS OUT.
HISTORICALLY, AND HAS BEEN
PREDICTABLE ABOUT HOW MANY
FOLKS WOULD BE HIRED IN AND HOW
MANY WOULD SEPARATE.
THAT IS NOT AT ALL PREDICTABLE,
NOW.
IT IS SOMETHING THAT THE
DEPARTMENT FEELS VERY
UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT PROJECTING.
THEY ARE, AT THIS POINT,
SENDING TO THE COUNCIL ONLY
ACTUALS.
>> GREG, IS THAT FOR BOTH NEW
HIRES AND SEPARATIONS, THEY ARE
NOT DOING PROJECTIONS?
>> IT IS.
IT IS FOR BOTH.
>> CAN YOU REMIND ME THAT IF
THEY ARE NOT PROJECTING
SEPARATIONS, UPON WHAT IS THE
SEPARATION PAY BUDGET BASED ON?
>> I WOULD HAVE TO ANSWER THAT
FOR YOU LATER.
MY SPECULATION -- AND ARE
RESERVED FOR THE RIGHT FOR THE
DEPARTMENT TO CORRECT ME --
IT'S BASED ON HISTORICAL LEVELS
OF SEPARATION.
THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I WILL
GET BACK TO YOU ON.
>> ALL RIGHT.
THANK YO.
>> WITHOUT THE DEPARTMENT
PROVIDING ANY PROJECTIONS, IT'S
DIFFICULT TO KNOW HOW THE
STAFFING PICTURE WILL LOOK
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
IN THE PAST, THE COUNCIL HAS
ASKED CENTRAL STAFF TO DO ITS
BEST JOB TO DO SOME PREDICTING
ABOUT HOW STAFFING WILL LOOK
AND THAT IS WHAT I HAVE DONE,
AGAIN.
I HAD PUT TOGETHER A STAFFING
PLAN THAT ASSUMES ACTUALS --
DOESN'T ASSUME -- REFLECTS
ACTUALS FROM JANUARY THROUGH
MARCH, THE FIRST QUARTER.
GOING FORWARD, FROM APRIL TO
DECEMBER, I MAKE ASSUMPTIONS
ABOUT HIRES AND SEPARATIONS.
SPECIFICALLY, I ASSUME THERE
WILL BE ABOUT EIGHT HIRES PER
MONTH AND THAT IS CONSISTENT
WITH SOME OF THE HIGHER LEVELS
OF STAFFING AND HIRING THAT
WE'VE SEEN IN THE PAST COUPLE
OF YEARS, PARTICULARLY 2019
COMES TO MIND.
EIGHT HIRES PER MONTH WOULD BE
ORIGINALLY CONSISTENT WITH WHAT
THE DEPARTMENT THOUGHT IT WOULD
BE ABLE TO DO THIS YEAR.
I WILL GET INTO MORE DETAIL ON
THAT LATER.
THE FORECASTS THAT I'M PUTTING
OUT THERE ALSO ASSUMES THAT
THEY'RE GOING TO BE AN AVERAGE
OF NINE SEPARATIONS PER MONTH.
THAT IS A LITTLE BIT HIGHER
THAN WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IN SPD
IN THE PAST.
WHEN I SAY THE PAST, I MEAN PRE-
SUMMER 2020 AND USUALLY
OFFICERS LEFT AT ABOUT THE PACE
OF SEVEN PER MONTH.
OF COURSE, NOW, AS WE KNOW IN
THE FALL AND AS YOU WILL SEE
CONTINUING INTO THE FIRST
QUARTER, THEY ARE LEAVING AT
WELL MORE THAN TWICE THAT RATE.
WE WILL GET INTO THAT LATER.
THE AVERAGE OF NINE SEPARATIONS
PER MONTH THAT WAS PICKED AND
THE AVERAGE OF EIGHT HIRES PER
MONTH PICKED FROM MY
ASSUMPTIONS REFLECT THE
COUNCIL'S STAFFING PLAN, WHICH
COUNCILMEMBER HERBOLD SAID IS
FULLY FUNDED AND THAT IS
DESCRIBED IN SPD 025 B ZERO
ZERO TWO WITH THEIR HIRING PLAN
COMPLETELY FUNDED.
I TOOK THE COMPLETELY FUNDED
PLAN AND I SUBBED IN THE
ACTUALS FOR THE FIRST MONTHS
AND MADE PROJECTIONS FROM
THERE.
HOPEFULLY, THAT MAKES SENSE.
MOVING ONTO THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO, LOOKING AT THE FIRST
QUARTER, WHAT IT MEANS IS THAT
I TOOK ACTUALS AND I SUBBED
THAT IN.
THAT MEANS THERE WERE 52
TRAINED OFFICERS THAT LEFT IN
THE FIRST QUARTER AND THERE
WERE 58 TOTAL SEPARATIONS.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 58
AND THE 52 ARE THAT SOME
OFFICERS THAT WERE IN TRAINING
OR SOME WERE RECRUITS, DROPPED
OUT AND THAT'S WHY WE SEE SOME
DIFFERENCE THERE.
BUT, WE ARE SEEING TOTAL
SEPARATIONS OF 58.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SEVEN PER
MONTH OR NINE PER MONTH,
OBVIOUSLY, YOU CAN SEE IN THE
BIG PICTURE CONTEXT WHEN WE
TALK ABOUT 58 IN THREE MONTHS,
OBVIOUSLY, NINE IS LOW AND SEVEN
IS VERY LOW, IN TERMS OF
HISTORIC AVERAGES.
ON THE HIRING SIDE, YOU CAN SEE
THAT THERE WERE 30 HIRES MADE
IN THE FIRST QUARTER.
THAT IS BECAUSE THERE WERE A
NUMBER OF FOLKS THAT WERE
EITHER HIRED OR IN THE HIRING
PROCESS AND LAST YEAR IN THE
FALL, WHEN THE ACADEMY SHUTDOWN
DUE TO THE PANDEMIC OR OVER THE
SUMMER AND SPD STOPPED HIRING,
THEY BANKED A NUMBER OF THOSE
RECRUITS.
BY DOING SO IN JANUARY WHEN
THEY STARTED HIRING AGAIN AND
SENDING IT TO THE ACADEMY, THEY
HAD A BIT OF A BACKLOG AND
THERE WERE 21 FOLKS READY TO GO
AND THEY ORGANIZED WITH THE
SEATTLE CLASS AND SENT ALL 21.
AT THE TIME THAT THE FORECAST
WAS BEING PUT TOGETHER, THE
COUNCIL FORECAST, AND THE
FORECAST THAT CENTRAL STAFF
DID, WE KNEW THOSE 21 WOULD
HAPPEN IN JANUARY.
THEY WERE ASSUMED IN THE HIRING
PLAN WITH NOTHING SIGNIFICANT
THERE.
AS YOU CAN SEE, IN THE LINES,
AND YOU'VE SEEN THIS GRAPH
BEFORE, THE TOP ONE IS FULLY
TRAINED OFFICERS AND YOU ARE
SEEING THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS
THAT COULD BE DEPLOYED. THEY
HAVE EXITED THE STUDENT OFFICER
RANKS AND CAN ANSWER 911 CALLS
ON THEIR OWN.
THE SECOND LINE YOU ARE SEEING
IS OFFICERS IN SERVICE AND
THOSE ARE THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS
THAT CAN BE DEPLOYED.
THE DIFFERENCE ARE ABLE TO BE
DEPLOYED IN THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THE TWO IS THAT THERE
WERE ABOUT 118, ON AVERAGE,
OVER THE FIRST QUARTER WITH
OFFICERS OUT ON LONG TERM LEAVE,
EITHER A DISABILITY LEAVE,
ADMINISTRATIVE, FAMILY LEAVE.
SO, THOSE 110 OFFICERS THAT
WERE OUT ARE NOT DEPLOYABLE AND
WHEN THE DEPARTMENT IS LOOKING
TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE STREET
STRENGTH IS, IF YOU WILL, IT
WILL LOOK MORE TO THE GRAY LINE
THAN TO THE BLUE LINE.
I WILL ASK IF THERE'S ANY
QUESTIONS ON THAT BEFORE I MOVE
ON.
>> THAT NUMBER OF OFFICERS IS
DECREASING.
THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS WHO ARE
FULLY TRAINED BUT NOT IN
SERVICE.
>> IT WENT FROM 1094 TO 1090 AND
GOT A LITTLE WORSE IN Q1 BUT
THIS IS AN AREA THE DEPARTMENT
IS GIVING PROJECTIONS ON AND SO
THEY ARE --
>> EYES SEA.
THAT'S PROJECTED AFTER THE
FOURTH QUARTER?
>> FOR THE FIRST QUARTER, YOU
WILL SEE THAT NUMBER WILL GET A
LITTLE BETTER.
THERE ARE FEWER OFFICERS OUT ON
ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE AND THAT
IS THE DEPARTMENT'S BELIEF.
>> THAT IS BASED ON THE AMOUNT
OF TIME THAT THE OFFICERS ARE
OUT?
>> PRETTY MUCH.
>> I KNOW OFFICER A WILL BE OUT
FOR A MONTH AND OFFICER B WILL
BE OUT AND THEY WILL PROVIDE
THIS PROJECTION BASED ON SOME
ACTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE
INDIVIDUAL INSTANCES OF
OFFICERS TAKING LEAVE?
>> YEAH.
THEY PROVIDE SOME OF THAT DATA
TO US AND WE KNOW THERE ARE
ABOUT 30%, 29% ON WORKERS COMP
ISSUES AND THERE'S ABOUT 45% OUT
ON A SORT OF A GENERAL CATEGORY
OF SICK OR ACCRUED BENEFITS AND
THERE'S ABOUT 18% OUT ON
ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.
TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY KNOW
WHEN THOSE PARTICULAR KINDS OF
LEAVES WILL END, THEY CAN
PREDICT OR PROJECT HOW THAT IN
SERVICE LINE IS GOING TO LOOK.
>> THANK YOU.
FOR THE NEXT SLIDE ON SPD
STAFFING, WHAT DOES IT MEAN
FROM A MONEY PERSPECTIVE?
OBVIOUSLY, IT IS PROBABLY BIG
NEWS THAT 58% OF OFFICERS LEFT
IN THE FIRST QUARTER AND IT
DOES HAVE THE FINANCIAL IMPACT
ON THE DEPARTMENTS.
IT MEANS AT THE VERY HIGHEST
LEVEL, THE ANNUAL AVERAGE FTE,
THE FUNDING FOR OFFICERS,
STUDENT OFFICERS AND RECRUITS
AND EVERY SWORN OR NEAR TERM
SWORN OR OR SOON-TO-BE SWORN
OFFICER IS IN THAT LINE, IT WAS
ORIGINALLY FUNDED AT 1343 IN
THE ADOPTED BUDGET AND IF YOU
LOOK AT THE CENTRAL STAFF
ESTIMATE, ASSUMING ABOUT NINE
FOLKS WILL LEAVE PER MONTH FOR
THE REST OF THE YEAR AND
ASSUMING THERE WILL BE ABOUT
EIGHT HIRES FOR THE REST OF THE
YEAR, PER MONTH, WE WOULD
EXPECT THE FTE WILL GET DOWN TO
ABOUT 1251, 92 POSITIONS FEWER
THAN OUR FUNDED ADOPTED BUDGET.
WHEN I SAY POSITIONS, I SAY
FTE.
IT'S ABOUT 92 FEWER THAN FUNDED
IN THE BUDGET.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT IF
THERE PROJECTIONS THAT I'VE MADE
ARE ACCURATE, AT THE END OF THE
YEAR, THE DEPARTMENT WILL HAVE
ABOUT $13 MILLION IN SALARY
SAVINGS.
IF YOU WANTED TO TAKE A REALLY
CONSERVATIVE LOOK AND YOU GO
BACK TO HISTORICAL SEPARATIONS
AND YOU SAY, MAYBE IT WILL BE
SEVEN PER MONTH, INSTEAD OF THE
NINE AVERAGE THAT I'M
PROJECTING, YOU CAN LOWER THAT
SALARY SAVINGS DOWN TO ABOUT
$11.5 MILLION.
I THOUGHT IT WOULD PROVIDE A
RANGE FOR FOLKS WITH AN IDEA
ABOUT HOW THE MONEY WOULD WORK,
ASSUMING SEVEN SEPARATIONS OR
NINE SEPARATIONS AS THE
ANALYSIS ASSUMES.
IF WE WIND UP IN THIS SITUATION
, AT THE END OF THE YEAR, FOR
OFFICERS IN SERVICE HAVING
THESE NUMBERS ON THE GRAPH YOU
JUST SAW, AND AS PROJECTED
OUTCOME OF THE HIRING WILL WIND
UP BEING 100 TO OFFICERS, NOT
114.
THE DEPARTMENT WAS ONLY ABLE TO
HIRE FOUR OFFICERS IN EACH OF
THE LAST TWO MONTHS IN TERMS OF
NEW RECRUITS.
THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF
RECRUITMENT WAS 105 IN 2019.
ASSUMING THE SEPARATIONS WITH
THE 58 THAT ARE SHOWING IN Q1
AND THE M9 THAT I ASSUMED AN
AVERAGE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR,
YOU CAN SEE 142 SEPARATIONS BY
THE END OF THE YEAR.
I WILL ASK IF THERE IS ANY
QUESTIONS ON THAT AND I
EMPHASIZE THAT THE COUNCIL
FUNDED 114 HIRES AND IF THE
AGENCY IS ABLE TO DO THAT, THE
MONEY IS THERE, MORE THAN THEY
ARE GIVEN THE NUMBER OF
SEPARATIONS THEY HAVE SEEN IN
THE FIRST QUARTER.
>> CHAIR HERBOLD, I THINK
COUNCILMEMBER MORALES MAY HAVE
A QUESTION.
>> THANK YOU.
I JUST WANT TO REITERATE WHAT I
THINK YOU'VE SAID, GREG.
WHILE THIS SLIDE, AT FIRST
GLANCE, LOOKS LIKE THERE IS $13
MILLION IN SALARY SAVINGS DUE
TO SEPARATIONS, THAT IS
ASSUMING THAT THE RATE OF
SEPARATIONS AND NEW HIRES
CONTINUES THROUGH THE YEAR AND
THAT WOULD ACCRUE BY YEAR-END.
IT'S NOT AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW?
>> THAT IS CORRECT.
THAT WOULD ACCRUE BY YEAR-END
AND IS NOT AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW.
I THINK WHAT WE WOULD HAVE TO
SEE IS THAT THE SEPARATIONS
WOULD HAVE TO REALLY GO DOWN TO
REACH NINE PER MONTH.
AS I SAY, THERE WERE 58, IN
TOTAL.
52 FULLY TRAINED OFFICERS AND
58, IN TOTAL, FOR THE FIRS
THREE MONTHS.
IT HAS TO GO DOWN FROM ALMOST
20 TO NINE.
THAT IS TO BE ABLE TO -- AND IF
IT DOESN'T -- IF IT STAYS AT
THE LEVELS IT IS THAT NOW, MORE
THAN 13 MILLION WILL BE SEEN BY
THE END OF THE YEAR.
>> OKAY.
THANK YOU.
>> OKAY.
SO, MOVING ALONG, I WILL SHOW
WHAT THIS MIGHT MEAN ON THE
GROUND.
NOW, WE WILL TALK A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT INCREASING STAFFING AND
YOU'VE SEEN THIS TABLE MANY
TIMES.
THIS IS, BASICALLY, 911
OFFICERS BROKEN DOWN BY THE
VARIOUS PRECINCTS. IT'S A
CATEGORY THAT THEY ARE USING TO
FILL IN, WHERE ADDITIONAL
OFFICERS ARE NEEDED IN THE
VARIOUS PRECINCTS.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS
PARTICULAR SLIDE, AND I WILL
GET INTO THIS MORE IN A MOMENT,
IS THAT YOU REALLY ONLY SEE 911
OFFICERS HERE.
THERE ARE THREE OTHER
CATEGORIES, THE SEATTLE CENTER
AND THE STATION MASTER.
I WOULD CONSIDER THAT MORE OF
SECURITY OR SUPPORT ROLES.
YOU'VE GOT 11 OFFICERS HERE.
WOULD YOU ARE NOT SEEING IS THE
ANTI-CRIME TEAM OR THE
COMMUNITY POLICE TEAM.
HISTORICALLY, THERE WERE, IN
THIS TABLE, 34 ANTI-CRIME TEAM
OFFICERS AND 28 COMMUNITY
POLICE TEAM OFFICERS.
THAT BEAT NUMBER WAS AT 51 AND
WHEN I SAY HISTORICALLY, IF YOU
LOOK AT THE BEGINNING OF 2020,
YOU WOULD SEE THOSE OFFICERS.
OF COURSE, WHAT HAPPENED, AS
OFFICERS STARTED SEPARATING,
THE CHIEF HAD TO MOVE FOLKS
FROM THOSE SPECIALTY PROACTIVE
POSITIONS INTO 911 RESPONSE TO
KEEP 911 RESPONSE TIMES DOWN.
WE WILL FLIP TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
THIS GIVES YOU PERSPECTIVE FOR
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
WHAT YOU SEE HERE ON THE LEFT-
HAND SIDE IS THE DATES AND
THESE ARE POINT IN TIME, AUGUST
2020 AND SEPTEMBER 2020,
DECEMBER AND MARCH OVER THE LAST
SIX MONTHS OR SO.
THE NEXT COLUMN, TOTAL PRECINCT
STAFFING, THIS IS A COLUMN
REPRESENTING WHAT WAS THERE WITH
EVERYTHING, IN TERMS OF 911
OFFICERS, PRECINCT SUPPORT,
CPT, A.C.T.
AND EVERYTHING IN THAT NUMBER.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE FIRST
COLUMN, WHICH IS THE TOTAL
PRECINCT STAFFING WAS 677 AND
OF THAT NUMBER, THERE WERE 495
OFFICERS ON THE 911 CALLS.
THERE WERE 68 SERGEANTS THAT
WERE SUPERVISING THOSE OFFICERS
RESPONDING TO 911 CALLS.
WHAT YOU SEE AS WE MOVE THROUGH
TIME INTO MARCH, IS THAT THE
PRECINCT STAFFING NUMBER IS
GOING DOWN. THE 911 OFFICER
NUMBER IS GENERALLY HOLDING
FAIRLY CONSTANT WITH A MASSIVE
BUMP BETWEEN AUGUST AND
SEPTEMBER AND THAT IS WHEN THE
CHIEF TRANSFERRED IN ALL OF THE
CPT ACTIVE SUPPORT OFFICERS
INTO 911 RESPONSE.
ABOUT 17 OFFICERS FROM OUTSIDE
OF THE PRECINCT SUPPORT.
THAT BEEFED UP THAT NUMBER TO
591, THE HIGHEST THAT 911
RESPONSE HAS BEEN IN A LONG
TIME.
FOR THE LAST 1.5 YEARS, IT HAS
BEEN MORE BEEN MORE AT THE 495
-- AND IT WAS BACK TO 466 IF
YOU LOOK AT 2019 WHEN YOU TALK
ABOUT OFFICERS FOR THE 911
RESPONSE.
THE CHIEF BUMPED IT TO 591 AND
THAT HAD THE EFFECT OF
PROVIDING MORE RESOURCES FOR
911 CALLS.
AS THE ATTRITION STARTED
HAPPENING FROM SEPTEMBER AND
MOVING FORWARD, OFFICERS
STARTED LEAVING THE DEPARTMENT
AND THAT STARTED TO AFFECT
PRECINCT STAFFING.
AS THAT HAPPENED, THE PRECINCT
NUMBER GOES DOWN AND THE CHIEF
IS DOING HIS BEST TO HOLD THE
911 RESPONSE OFFICERS AT ABOUT
THE 500 LEVEL AND AS WE'VE
REACHED MARCH 2021, YOU CAN SEE
THAT PRETTY MUCH THE ONLY THING
LEFT OF THE TOTAL PRECINCT
STAFFING IS THE 911 RESPONSE. I
KNOW THAT IS A LOT OF
INFORMATION AND I WILL STOP AND
ASK FOR QUESTIONS.
>> I HAVE A QUESTION.
IS THERE A CORRELATION, OR DO
WE KNOW IF THERE IS A
CORRELATION?
IS IT POSSIBLE TO KNOW WHETHER
OR NOT THE ATTRITION SINCE
SEPTEMBER IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO
THE TRANSFER FROM SPECIALTY
UNITS INTO 911?
IS THERE A HIGHER PERCENTAGE,
FOR INSTANCE, OF OFFICERS THAT
HAVE LEFT THAT ARE OFFICERS
THAT HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED?
>> THAT IS NOT SOMETHING I
KNOW.
THAT IS SOMETHING I WILL ASK
THE DEPARTMENT TO GET BACK TO
YOU ON.
THEY HAVE BEEN KEEPING TRACK OF
SOME OF THAT INFORMATION AND I
WILL GET BACK TO YOU AND LET
YOU KNOW.
MY RECOLLECTION IS THAT IT WAS
A MIX OF OLDER AND NEWER
OFFICERS.
SOME FOLKS SAY THEY WILL COME
AT A LATER TIME AND MORE
SPECIFICALLY, CALLERS SHOULD
CALL BACK AT A LATER TIME.
WHAT I WOULD HIGHLIGHT HERE, IF
YOU LOOK AT THE DESCRIPTION ON
THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE, STARTING AT
ABOUT NUMBER THREE,
COMMUNICATIONS WILL NOT
DISPATCH TO THE NARCOTIC
ACTIVITY, BURGLAR ALARMS,
PRIORITY THREE OR PRIORITY FOUR
CALLS OR CALLS THAT REQUIRE
ONLY AN OFFICER TO SHOW UP FOR A
REPORT.
IF SOMEONE CALLS 911 FOR THOSE
THINGS, THEY WILL BE TOLD TO
CALL BACK AT ANOTHER TIME WHEN
STAFFING CAN BE PRESENT.
THE DEPARTMENT KEEPS TRACK OF
THE NUMBER OF TIMES THESE
THINGS HAPPEN AND THE GRAPH ON
THE LEFT SHOWS THE NUMBER OF
TIMES THEY'VE HAD TO GO TO
PRIORITY RESPONSE THAT IS
INCREASING.
ONE THING I SHOULD NOTE, THE
2021 NUMBER IS A YEAR TO DATE
NUMBER AND NOT FIRST QUARTER.
IT IS THROUGH APRIL 22 AND THE
OTHER THING I WOULD NOTE IS
THAT IT WOULD NOT BE ACCURATE
TO TAKE THAT NUMBER AND DO A
STRAIGHT LINE PROJECTION WITH
IT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO TRY
TO ESTIMATE WHAT HAPPENED AT
THE END OF 2021.
911 CALLS AND A LOT OF THE WORK
THAT HAS TO BE DONE IS SEASONAL
AND, OBVIOUSLY, THEY WERE AT
THE QUIETER TIME OF YEAR, IF YOU
WILL.
QUIET IS PROBABLY BEING THE
HOLIDAYS AND I WILL HAVE TO ASK
DR. FISHER BUT THE POINT BEING,
YOU CAN'T TAKE THE 84 AND FIGURE
OUT WHAT THE REMAINING DAYS ARE
AND DO THE MATH AND FIND THE
NUMBER.
OKAY.
MOVING ON.
WHAT YOU ARE SEEING HERE IS THE
911 RESPONSE TIMES THAT THE
DEPARTMENT HAS PROVIDED.
AS YOU CAN SEE, IT WENT UP BY
ALL RESPONSE TIMES, GOING UP
SINCE 2019.
WITH THE EXCEPTION, I BELIEVE,
OF THE SOUTH.
THAT WENT SLIGHTLY DOWN FROM
2020 TO 2021 IN THE FIRST
QUARTER.
THIS IS APPLES-TO-APPLES AND WE
ARE LOOKING AT Q1 OF THIS YEAR
COMPARED WITH Q1 OF 2020 AND
2019.
THESE CALLS HAVE GENERALLY GONE
UP ACROSS THE BOARD.
EVERYTHING ELSE HAS GONE UP ON
PRIORITY TWO.
>> THE CONTEXT, THE GOAL FOR
PRIORITY ONE IS SEVEN MINUTES
AND FOUR PRIORITY TWO, 15?
>> PRIORITY TWO IS TOTALLY
ESCAPING ME AND I WILL HAVE TO
GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT ONE.
I BELIEVE YOU ARE CORRECT THAT
IT HAD BEEN SEVEN MINUTES ON
PRIORITY ONE.
I WILL GET BACK TO YOU ON BOTH
OF THOSE.
>> THANK YOU.
>> THE NEXT THING I WANT TO
COVER, NOW THAT WE ARE THROUGH
MOST OF THE REPORTS THAT SPD
SENT, IS THE PROVISOS THE
COUNCIL HAS ENACTED ON SPD AND
THE REASON IT'S IMPORTANT IS
BECAUSE THIS AFFECTS THE SPD
FINANCES AND THE ABILITY TO USE
THEIR BUDGETS AS THE COUNCIL
PROVIDES US TO RESTRICT THE
BUDGET FOR A NUMBER OF
DIFFERENT PURPOSES. I
WILL REMIND THE COMMITTEE OF
WHAT THOSE RESTRICTIONS ARE AND
START WITH SLIDE NUMBER 20.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THE FIRST
PROVISO WITH THIS IS ITS $2.5
MILLION AND THE IDEA IS THAT
THIS MONEY IS BEING HELD OUT OF
THE SPD BUDGET. THEY CANNOT
SPEND THE APPROPRIATION UNTIL
AUTHORIZED BY A FUTURE
ORDINANCE AND THE IDEA BEING
THAT THE CITY IS PURSUING THE
POTENTIAL OF HAVING OFFICERS
WHO HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF
MISCONDUCT AND, POTENTIALLY,
HAVING THOSE OFFICERS BE
PRIORITIZED FOR A LAYOFF.
THAT IS SOMETHING THAT, IF IT
ULTIMATELY DOESN'T COME TO
FRUITION, SOMETHING THE COUNCIL
WOULD CONSIDER RESTORING THAT
$2.5 MILLION.
MOVING TO THE SECOND ONE, IT'S
A SALARY SAVINGS PROVISO.
THE COUNCIL RIGHTLY ANTICIPATED
THAT DUE TO THE NUMBER OF FOLKS
THAT WERE SEPARATING FROM SPD,
THAT THERE WOULD BE SALARY
SAVINGS.
THERE IS A PROVISO HOLDING $5
MILLION THAT SAYS THAT MONEY
CAN'T BE SPENT UNTIL FUTURE
ORDINANCE.
THE COUNCIL ESTABLISHED AN
INTENT AND THAT PROVISO TO
TRANSFER SOME FUNDING TO
FINANCE GENERAL TO BE USED FOR
PARTICIPATORY BUNCHING.
THEY SAY ANY SUCH TRANSFER
WOULD BE ADJUSTED ACCORDINGLY
WAS SPENDING RESTRICTIONS
IMPOSED BY THAT PROVISO.
THAT'S ANOTHER $5 MILLION THAT
THE DEPARTMENT HAS TO NOT PLAN
ON HAVING.
THEN, SWITCHING TO NUMBER
THREE, THE HARBOR PATROL
PROVISO WAS HOLDING $555,000
ASIDE, PRIORITIZING THE REPORT
ON WHAT HARBOR FUNCTIONS MIGHT
BE TRANSFERABLE EITHER TO THE
FIRE DEPARTMENT OR THE NEW
COMMUNITY OF SAFETY AND
COMMUNICATIONS CENTER.
AS LONG AS THAT REPORT IS
SUBMITTED TO THE COUNCIL,
HOPEFULLY BY THE DUE DATE OF
MAY 24th, THE COUNCIL WOULD
CONSIDER RESTORING THAT MONEY
INTO THE SPD BUDGET.
THE LAST ONE IS THE TRAVEL AND
TRAINING PROVISO, HOLDING UP
ABOUT $700,000 OF FUNDING FOR
TRAVEL AND TRAINING AND WHAT IS
NOTABLE IS THE ENTIRE TRAVEL
AND TRAINING BUDGET IS ONLY
ABOUT $900,000 AND THAT HOLDS A
LARGE CHUNK OF THE TRAVEL AND
TRAINING BUDGET.
WHEN I SAY TRAVEL AND TRAINING,
YOU SHOULD NOTE IT'S NOT
TRAINING FOR DE-ESCALATION OR
OFFICER SKILLS.
THAT KIND OF TRAINING IS IN
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND THIS
IS MORE PROFESSIONAL OR
CERTIFICATIO KIND OF TRAINING
INCLUDING THE THINGS CIVILIANS
MIGHT GO TO OR CERTIFICATION
THINGS OFFICERS MIGHT GO TO.
NOT THE KIND OF TRAINING THAT IS
MANDATED BY THE CONSENT DECREE.
THAT STUFF IS ALL IN A
DIFFERENT AREA.
AS LONG AS THE DEPARTMENT
SUBMITS A REPORT ON TRAVEL AND
TRAINING, THIS ONE, THE COUNCIL
WILL NOT HAVE TO ACT AGAIN AND
HOPEFULLY, THAT HAPPENS SOON
WITH THE REPORT SUPPOSED TO BE
DUE ON MARCH 31 AND THE MAYOR'S
OFFICE IN THE LAST PRESENTATION
SAID THAT WAS COMING SOON.
>> THE PROVISO SELF RELEASES
WITH THE HARVARD PATROL PROVISO
REQUIRING ACTION FOR THE
COUNCIL?
>> CORRECT.
>> THE SALARY SAVINGS PROVISO,
THE $5 MILLION PROVISO, CAN YOU
úREMIND ME HOW WE WOULD PROPOSE
TO ADDRESS THAT IN THE BUDGET
REDUCTION BILL THAT WE'VE BEEN
DISCUSSING IN COMMITTEE?
>> IN THE AMENDMENT THAT YOU
PROPOSE, CHAIR, AND THE
COMMITTEE VOTED TO REPLACE THE
ORIGINAL BILL, I SHOULD NOTE
THAT THE AMENDMENT HASN'T BEEN
VOTED OUT, YET.
>> CORRECT.
>> THE AMENDMENT WOULD
ESSENTIALLY RELEASE THE SALARY
SAVINGS PROVISO AND DOES REQUIRE
THAT THE DEPARTMENT SEND,
CONTINUE TO SEND STAFFING
REPORTS AND WOULD RELEASE THE
$5 MILLION HOLD AS LONG AS THE
DEPARTMENT SENDS STAFFING
REPORTS.
>> PENDING THE STAFFING REPORT?
>> THAT'S CORRECT.
>> THANK YOU.
>> SO, TO SUMMARIZE, KEY
TAKEAWAYS.
THE FIRST ONE SEEMS OBVIOUS.
STAFFING IS A CHALLENGE. I WENT
INTO A BIT OF DETAIL WITH THE
PRECINCTS BECAUSE I WANTED TO
POINT OUT THAT THE BIGGEST
CHANGE HAS BEEN THAT SPD HAS
LOST ITS PROACTIVE PATROL
POSITIONS.
911 RESPONSE HAS NOT CHANGED A
LOT, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE
DATA.
A.C.T.
AND CPT HAD PRETTY MUCH BEEN
ELIMINATED AND BEAT OFFICERS
THAT WERE AT 51 ARE NOW AT 11.
THE DEPARTMENT WOULD SAY THAT
THE STAFFING CHALLENGES ARE
CONTRIBUTING TO PRIORITY CALL
HANDLING OCCURRENCES, THOSE
BEING TRENDING UPWARDS.
AS WE KNOW, THE HIGHER
SEPARATIONS CONTINUE.
NEARLY EVERY CATEGORY OF
OVERTIME AND DISCRETIONARY
SPENDING IS DOWN COMPARED TO
2020.
W KNOW THE EXCEPTIONS ARE
PATROL AUGMENTATION AND
SEPARATION PAY AND WHAT IS
NOTABLE IS THAT EVERYTHING ELSE
IS DOWN IN MANY CASES,
NUMERICALLY, MEANING SPENDING
WAS LESS THAN, FEWER DOLLARS,
THAN LAST YEAR.
THE BUDGET WAS ALSO LOWER AND
IN MANY INSTANCES, THE
PERCENTAGE OF SPENDING AS A
PERCENTAGE OF BUDGET IS ALSO
DOWN.
THE DEPARTMENT IS DOING WHAT
THEY CAN TO BE GOOD FISCAL
STORES AND ADHERE TO THE
COUNCIL'S PLEDGE.
NUMBER THREE, SALARY SAVINGS
MAY REACH $13 MILLION AND WE
TALKED FAIRLY EXTENSIVELY ABOUT
THE ASSUMPTIONS CENTRAL STAFF
HAVE MADE THAT WOULD REQUIRE
COMING TO FRUITION TO BE ABLE
TO GET TO $13 MILLION IN 2021.
I WOULD NOTE THAT THE DEPARTMENT
HAS SAID THAT THE SALARY
SAVINGS IS SOMETHING THEY WOULD
LIKE TO RELY ON FOR FIXING THE
SEPARATION PAY BUDGET ISSUE
WITH NEW CIVILIAN POSITIONS
THEY ARE INTERESTED IN AND
TECHNOLGY INVESTMENTS, ALL OF
WHICH ARE RECOGNIZED AND WOULD
BE FUNDED WITH SALARY SAVINGS
UNDER THE AMENDMENT THAT THE
PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE HAS
CHOSEN TO SUBSTITUTE FOR
COUNCIL BILL 119981.
THE CITY COUNCIL HAS ALSO
INDICATED AN INTEREST IN
RECOUPING SOME OF THOSE SALARY
SAVINGS WITH PARTICIPATORY
BUDGETING.
THAT WOULD ALSO HAPPEN UNDER
THE AMENDMENT I JUST SPOKE TO.
LASTLY, THE PROVISOS THAT I
WENT THROUGH OUR HOLDING ABOUT
$8.5 MILLION OF EXPENDITURE
AUTHORITY THAT THE DEPARTMENT
WOULD ULTIMATELY NEED TO HAVE
RESTORED IF THEY WERE TO BE
ABLE TO USE THEIR ENTIRE BUNCH.
I'VE COVERED A LOT.
I WILL ASK IF THERE ARE ANY
QUESTIONS.
>> I AM NOT SEEING VIRTUAL
HANDS OR REAL HANDS.
THIS IS VERY HELPFUL.
FINALLY, AS CONTEXT, I THINK,
FOR CONSIDERING THE SPD BUDGET
REDUCTION BILL THAT AIMS TO
BOTH ALIGN WITH OUR COMMITMENT
TO REDUCING $2021 TO ADDRESS
THE OVERSPEND OF OVERTIME IN
2020, BUT ALSO WORKING TO FUND
THE SHARED PRIORITIES THAT
COUNCIL HAS WITH SPD FOR SOME
OF THE SALARY SAVINGS.
SO, I THINK THAT EVEN THOUGH WE
HAD TO PAUSE IN THE
DELIBERATIONS OF THAT BILL
BECAUSE OF THE NEED TO ALLOW
THE MONITOR TO RECEIVE RESPONSES
TO THE QUESTIONS IT HAD ASKED
OF SPD, THE USE OF THIS ANALYSIS
DURING THE TIME OF THAT PAUSE,
I THINK, IS GOING TO SERVICE US
WELL WHEN WE TAKE THAT BUILD
BACK UP AGAIN.
WITH THAT, I SAY THANKS AGAIN.
>> THANK YOU.
>> I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
CLARK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ THE
FINAL ITEM INTO THE AGENDA?
>> ITEM THREE, HUMAN SERVICES
DEPARTMENT UPDATE ON SAFE AND
DRIVING COMMUNITIES AND VICTIM
ADVOCATE TRANSFER.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I APPRECIATE BEING JOINED HERE
BY THE HUMAN SERVICES
DEPARTMENT AND I WANT TO ASK
AMY IF YOU WANT TO DO A QUICK
INTRO OR TO ORIENT US TO THE
PRESENTATION?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL
MEMBERS.
MY NAME IS AMY GORE FROM THE
COUNCIL STEP IN THE FINAL ITEM
ON THE AGENDA IS A PRESENTATION
ON THE DRIVING DIVISION OF THE
HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
A NEW DIVISION ESTABLISHED IN
THE 2021 BUDGET.
AS MENTIONED EARLIER, THE
DIVISION INCLUDES COMMUNITY
SAFETY PROGRAMS AND THE MAYOR'S
OFFICE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,
TRADITIONALLY HOUSED IN THE
HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND
AS WELL, THE CRIME VICTIMS
ADVOCATE SUPPORT TEAM,
TRANSFERRED TO HST FROM SEATTLE
POLICE.
HST WILL SPEAK TO THE NEW
DIVISION AND THE STATUS OF
THOSE TRANSFERS.
WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT OVER
TO TANYA KIM.
>> THANK YOU.
I'M ASSUMING THAT LILY WILL
PULL UP THE SLIDE DECK.
I'M TANYA KIM, INTERIM DEPUTY
DIRECTOR OF THE HUMAN SERVICES
DEPARTMENT.
>> I'M DANA LOCKHART, MANAGER
OF THE SURVIVOR SERVICES UNIT
IN THE HUMAN SERVICES DIVISION.
>> GREAT.
THANK YOU.
I KNOW THAT WE ARE SHORT ON
TIME AND FORGIVE ME IF I'M
RUSHING THROUGH SOME ITEMS.
I'M ALWAYS HAPPY TO COME BACK.
TODAY, WE ARE GOING TO PROVIDE
AN OVERVIEW OF THE HST SAFE AND
THRIVING COMMUNITIES DIVISION
AND DANA, MY COLLEAGUE, WILL DO
A DEEPER DIVE ON THE CRIME
SURVIVOR UNIT TRANSFERRED FROM
THE SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
NEXT.
ONE MORE.
HSD HAS FOUR DIVISIONS AND WE
HAVE OUR LEADERSHIP AND
ADMINISTRATION, AGING AND
DISABILITY SERVICES, YOUTH AND
FAMILY AND HOMELESSNESS
STRATEGY AND INVESTMENTS,
TRANSITIONING TO THE REGIONAL
HOMELESSNESS AUTHORITY.
THE NEW SAFE AND THRIVING
COMMUNITIES DIVISION
CONSOLIDATES THE HST EXISTING
SAFETY EFFORTS AND INCLUDES THE
CRIME SURVIVOR SERVICES UNIT
WITH APPROXIMATELY 30 STAFF AND
LIKE OTHER DIVISIONS WITHIN
HST, WILL FUNCTION AS A FUNDER,
DIRECT SERVICE PROVIDER AND
CONVENE HER.
WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF
STANDING UP THE DIVISION AND
ONE OF THE FIRST ORDERS OF
BUSINESSES HIRING OUR DIVISION
DIRECTOR AND THAT POSTING IS
LIVE.
WE HOPE TO HAVE THE PERSON IN
PLACE AT THE END OF MAY, IF NOT
JUNE.
THERE ARE THREE DISTINCT UNITS
WITHIN THE SAFETY DIVISION AND
THE FIRST IS COMMUNITY SAFETY
INVESTMENTS, WHICH IS
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE REQUEST FOR
PROPOSALS AND CONTRACTS WITH
COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS
WHO SUPPORT YOUTH, ADULTS AND
FAMILIES HARMED BY THE CRIMINAL
LEGAL SYSTEM.
YOU WILL SEE OUR COMMUNITY
SAFETY INVESTMENTS IN THAT
UNIT.
WE HAVE OUR MAYOR'S OFFICE ON
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL
ASSAULT AS A FUNDER AND CONVENE
HER AND THEY FOCUS ON GENDER-
BASED SERVICES AND SUPPORT
SURVIVORS AT RISK OF GENDER-
BASED VIOLENCE WITH COMMUNITY-
BASED SERVICES TO MAINTAIN AND
SUPPORT THEIR SAFETY.
MODVSA LEADS THE RESPONSE TO
THE VIOLENCE AND FINALLY, WE
HAVE THE CRIME SURVIVOR
SERVICES UNIT WHICH MY
COLLEAGUE WILL DESCRIBE LATER
ON THIS PRESENTATION.
WITH THE CONTRACT IN THE
DIVISION, I'M SORRY, BUT AS IT
RELATES TO YOUR DESCRIPTION OF
THE COMMUNITY SAFETY INVESTMENT,
THAT SUPPORT FOR YOUTH, ADULTS
AND FAMILIES HARMED BY THE
CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM THROUGH
VARIOUS SUPPORTS AND SERVICES,
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THESE
INVESTMENTS AND THIS IS AN AREA
WHERE THE COUNCIL, TOGETHER WITH
THE EXECUTIVE, HAVE WORKED TO
INCREASE THESE INVESTMENTS.
DOESN'T THIS CATEGORY INCLUDE
INVESTMENTS MEANT TO CREATE
SAFETY BEFORE EXPOSURE TO THE
CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM, AS WELL?
>> YES.
IF THE OUTCOMES OF THE MEASURE
ARE TIED TO COMMUNITY SAFETY,
YES.
BUT, WITH THE HUMAN SERVICES
DEPARTMENT, WE ALSO HAVE THE
YOUTH AND FAMILY EMPOWERMENT
DIVISION THAT IS GOING UPSTREAM
TO GREAT CONDITIONS OF WELL-
BEING.
THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, THE FOOD
AND FOOD AND NUTRITION, ET
CETERA, THAT'S IN THAT
DIVISION.
THAT'S WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT
BEFORE.
>> YES.
>> MOVING TO THE NEXT SLIDE, I
HAVE A QUICK PREVIEW OF THE
CONTRACT THAT MIGHT HELP
ARTICULATE IT A LITTLE BIT,
WITH A FINER POINT THAT IN THE
COMMUNITY SAFETY, IN THAT UNIT
THAT YOU ARE POINTING TO, THE
COUNCILMEMBER IS ABOUT $22
MILLION OF INVESTMENTS AND THAT
DOES INCLUDE THE RECENT COUNCIL
ADS.
IT ALSO INCLUDES THE ACTIVE
COMMUNITY SAFETY CAPACITY
BUILDING RFP IN PROGRESS.
WE WILL GIVE A PRESENTATION ON
THAT THAT, ONCE THE RFP IS DONE
AND THERE IS ABOUT $9.4 MILLION
IN GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE.
TOGETHER, THOSE WILL BE THE
INVESTMENTS THAT WE HAVE WITHIN
THE DIVISION.
WITH THAT, WE WANT TO DO A
DEEPER DIVE ON THE CRIME
SURVIVOR SERVICES UNIT.
I'M GOING TO REINTRODUCE DANA
TO TAKE OVER.
>> I LOST MY MUTE BUTTON.
THANK YOU.
I'VE LOST MY NOTES.
TOO MANY SCREENS.
NOW, IT'S LOCKED BEHIND MY
NOTES.
I APOLOGIZE.
HERE WE GO.
THANK YOU, TANYA.
THE CREATION OF THE CRIME
SURVIVORS SERVICES UNIT DOES
ALIGN WITH THE CITY OF
SEATTLE'S COMMITMENT TO
REIMAGINE PUBLIC SAFETY.
AS YOU KNOW, COUNCIL PASSED
LEGISLATION LAST YEAR THAT
TRANSFERRED ALL OF THE VICTIM
ADVOCACY SERVICES OUT OF THE
SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT READ
OUR UNIT SERVES CRIME SURVIVORS
OF 11 DIFFERENT CRIME TYPES AND
THAT IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ELDER
ABUSE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, CHILD
ABUSE, INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST
CHILDREN, COMMERCIAL SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN, HUMAN
TRAFFICKING, ROBBERY, HATE
CRIMES, ASSAULT AND HOMICIDE.
WHILE WE CREATE A SINGULAR UNIT
FOR ALL VICTIM ADVOCACY
SERVICES, IT'S OUR INTENT TO
CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN
SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL
EXPERTISE IN THE SPECIFIC CRIME
TYPE.
THE CRIME VICTIM ADVOCATES WILL
REMAIN COLOCATED WITHIN THE
INVESTIGATIVE UNITS WITHIN THE
SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND
THEY WILL ALSO BE WORKING WITH
THE CHIEF COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S
OFFICE.
THIS COLOCATION IS IMPORTANT TO
ENSURE THAT SURVIVORS OF THE
CRIMES ARE MET WITH A TRAUMA-
INFORMED SURVIVOR CENTERED
RESPONSE EARLY ON IN THE
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION PROCESS.
THEIR VOICES AND WISHES ARE
HEARD AT ALL STAGES OF THE
INVESTIGATION AND CRIMINAL
PROCEEDINGS AND THEIR RIGHTS AS
CRIME SURVIVORS ARE PROTECTED.
NEXT SLIDE.
AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, CRIME
SURVIVOR SERVICES IS TWO
PROGRAMS AND THE FIRST IS THE
VICTIM SUPPORT TEAM.
THIS IS MADE UP OF ROUGHLY 60
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS THAT
PROVIDES A MOBILE TRAUMA
RESPONSE AND ADVOCACY WITH
CRISIS INTERVENTION.
THEY RESPOND PRIMARILY ON THE
WEEKENDS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
CALLS AND THE SEXUAL ASSAULT
CRIME SCENES.
THIS IS AT THE REQUEST OF
PATROL OFFICERS.
THEY RESPOND TO THE CRIME
SURVIVORS FOLLOWING THE
TRAUMATIC EVENT.
THE VST WAS DESIGNED TO ADDRESS
THE GAP IN SERVICES ON THE
WEEKEND WHEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
CALLS ARE HAPPENING THE MOST
FREQUENTLY AND ALSO, COMMUNITY
SERVICES ARE HARDEST TO ACCESS
DURING THAT TIME, AS WELL.
THEY PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION,
HELP LOCATE EMERGENCY SHELTERS
AND PROVIDE EMERGENCY SERVICES
SUCH AS FOOD, BABY NEEDS AND
CLOTHING AND THEY DO EXTENSIVE
COMMUNITY RESOURCE FOR VEARL,
PROVIDING THE BRIDGE FOR
SERVICES.
THEY SPEND QUITE A BIT OF TIME
ANSWERING QUESTIONS AND HELPING
TO NAVIGATE THE CRIMINAL
JUSTICE SYSTEM AND OFFER
EXTENSIVE SAFETY PLANNING, AS
WELL.
WE HAVE A STAFF ADVOCATE DURING
THE WEEK WHO PROVIDES CASE
MANAGEMENT TO ADDRESS THE
SURVIVOR'S BASIC NEEDS AND AS
WELL, COORDINATION ACROSS
MULTIPLE SYSTEMS.
NEXT SLIDE.
OUR SECOND PROGRAM ARE THE
CRIME VICTIM ADVOCATES AND WE
HAVE NINE STAFF WHO HAVE COME
OVER FROM SPD AND THEY ARE
RESPONSIBLE FOR ENSURING THAT
THE WASHINGTON STATE STATUTORY
OBLIGATIONS ARE MET WITH TIMELY
NOTIFICATIONS TO CRIME VICTIMS
AND UPHOLDING THE CRIME VICTIMS
BILL OF RIGHTS.
ALL OF THE ADVOCATES ARE
RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING THE
REQUIRED SERVICES TO CRIME
SURVIVORS, ENSURING THE
STATUTORY APPLICATIONS ARE MET,
AS I SAID.
THEY ACCOMPANY VICTIMS TO
DEFENSE INTERVIEWS AND COURT
HEARINGS AND SPEAK ON BEHALF OF
THE VICTIMS WHEN ASKED TO DO SO,
OFTEN READING THE VICTIM IMPACT
STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THAT
VICTIM WHILE IN COURT.
THEY PROVIDE ONGOING SAFETY
PLANNING FOR SURVIVORS OF
COERCIVE CONTROL THROUGHOUT THE
PROCESS AND AS MOST OF YOU
KNOW, IT'S QUITE EXTENSIVE,
ESPECIALLY THIS PAST YEAR WITH
THE COURTS BEING CLOSED.
THEY ALSO ASSIST WITH MITIGATING
THE IMPACT OF THE CRIME, SUCH
AS HELPING TO FILE THE CRIME
VICTIMS COMPENSATION FORMS AND
CLAIMS AND ASSISTING WITH
BEREAVEMENT ARRANGEMENTS WITH
FAMILY MEMBERS OF HOMICIDE
VICTIMS AND THE ADVOCATE ON
BEHALF OF THE SURVIVORS FOR THE
WORKPLACE AND TENANT RIGHTS AND
ASSISTING WITH SECURING
ALTERNATE CARE FOR PROVIDERS OF
ELDER ABUSE SURVIVORS AND AS
WELL, CONNECTING SURVIVORS WITH
RESTORATIVE HEALING SERVICES
AND/OR COUNSELING.
THAT IS IT FOR ME.
ANY QUESTIONS?
>> YES.
>> I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE
VOLUNTEER PROGRAM.
FOR THE VOLUNTEERS, HAS THERE
BEEN AN ASSESSMENT OF WHETHER
OR NOT THAT NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS
HAS THE CAPACITY TO MEET THE
NEED? THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE, AND
THE ASSESSMENT OF WHETHER OR NOT
THE COHORT OF VOLUNTEERS, GIVEN
ITS DEMOGRAPHIC MAKEUP, IS
CAPABLE OF DELIVERING
CULTURALLY RELEVANT SURVIVOR
SERVICES?
I'M CONCERNED ABOUT RELYING ON
A VOLUNTEER COHORT. IN
INSTANCES WHERE THE CITY WANTS
A DIFFERENT REPRESENTATION,
TYPICALLY, THIS IS FOR
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESSES,
NOT WORKING TO VOLUNTEER IN
THIS FASHION, BUT WE PROVIDED
STIPENDS OUT OF RECOGNITION
THAT YOU GET A DIFFERENT
POPULATION OF PEOPLE TO
PARTICIPATE BECAUSE NOT
EVERYBODY THAT YOU WANT TO
PARTICIPATE CAN AFFORD TO
VOLUNTEER.
I'M WONDERING IF THAT SORT OF
ANALYSIS HAS BEEN DONE WITH
THIS VOLUNTEER COHORT.
I WANT TO MAKE SURE --
OBVIOUSLY, I VALUE EVERYBODY'S
SERVICE, PUBLIC SERVICE AS A
VOLUNTEER BUT I ALSO WANT TO
MAKE SURE THAT THE DEMOGRAPHIC
COMPENSATION IS ABLE TO DELIVER
CULTURALLY RELEVANT SERVICES.
>> SURE.
THANK YOU.
YOU ASKED A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS
AND I WANT TO ANSWER THEM.
THE FIRST ONE WAS WHETHER WE
ARE REALLY MEETING THE NEEDS
DURING THAT WINDOW OF TIME.
I WILL SAY THAT OUR EFFORTS, AS
I STATED EARLIER, ARE TRYING TO
BRIDGE THE GAP IN SERVICES AND
THAT CAN'T BE DONE WITH JUST OUR
PROGRAM.
IT REALLY CAN'T.
WE ARE PARTNERING WITH COMMUNITY
PROGRAMS THAT SERVE SPECIFIC
POPULATIONS AND WE ARE TRYING
TO CONNECT THEM TO SERVICES
THAT ARE MORE SUSTAINABLE WITH
THAT EMERGENCY RESPONSE.
BY NATURE, IT IS AT THE
DISCRETION OF THE PATROL
OFFICERS TO UTILIZE OUR
SERVICES.
THE QUICK ANSWER IS, NO.
WE PROBABLY ARE NOT MEETING THE
NEEDS OF EVERYONE WHO COULD
UTILIZE THOSE SERVICES ON THE
WEEKEND.
WE ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO
INCREASE OUR UTILIZATION BY
GOING TO ROLL CALL TRAININGS TO
PROMOTE THE USE OF THE PROGRAM
WITH PATROL OFFICERS WITH THAT
DISCRETION.
WE ARE WORKING TO INCREASE THAT
AND OVER THE LAST YEAR, THE
VOLUNTEERS HAVE BEEN FURLOUGHED
BECAUSE OF RESTRICTIONS, HEALTH
RESTRICTIONS AND WE HAVEN'T
BEEN ABLE TO GET THE VOLUNTEERS
IN THE FIELD AND THERE HAVE
BEEN HUGE GAPS IN SERVICES AS
WE FIGURE OUT HOW TO BRING THEM
BACK QUICKLY TO BE MORE
RESPONSIVE.
TO MAKE SURE WE ARE
REPRESENTATIONAL IN THE
COMMUNITIES WE SERVE, THAT IS
ALWAYS SOMETHING WE ARE WORKING
TOWARD AND I CAN RECOGNIZE THAT
WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY
REPRESENTATIONAL AS A VOLUNTEER
CORPS OF ABOUT 60 VOLUNTEERS
BUT THAT IS A PRIORITY OF OURS
AND WE ARE TRYING TO ENSURE
THAT WE ARE WORKING WITH THE
DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUPS WE
ARE REFERRING TO AND AS WELL,
THE COMMUNITIES WE ARE SERVING
TO IDENTIFY HOW WE CAN PROVIDE
ADDITIONAL DIVERSITY AND
REPRESENTATION ON OUR VOLUNTEER
TEAM.
THAT SAID, WE ARE JUST ONE
POINT IN A MUCH BROADER NETWORK
OF SERVICE PROVIDERS.
THEY CAN'T DO IT ALL.
IT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT
THAT WE CONTINUE TO COLLABORATE
AND PARTNER WITH THOSE
COMMUNITY PROGRAMS.
I DO SUPPORT THOSE COMMUNITY
PROGRAMS RECEIVING FUNDING.
>> YOU BRING UP AN INTERESTING
POINT AND WE WILL TAKE IT BACK
TO OUR DEPARTMENT.
WITH THE TRANSFER OF THIS UNIT
INTO HSD, AND YOU KNOW HSD
RAISES SOCIAL JUSTICE
INITIATIVES.
IT IS VERY MUCH AT THE
FOREFRONT OF THE WORK WE ARE
DOING AND WITH THE STAFF, WE
HAVE DIRECT SERVICES THROUGHOUT
THE WHOLE DEPARTMENT, AS WELL.
PROCESS IMPROVEMENT,
ESPECIALLY, MAKING SURE WE ARE
LIFTING OUR REPRESENTATION.
IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO US AND
WE WILL DEFINITELY TAKE YOUR
FEEDBACK INTO OUR WORK.
>> THANK YOU.
ONE OTHER QUESTION. YOUR ANSWER
TO MY FIRST QUESTION, HOW DO WE
, IF WE WANTED TO, HOW DO WE
ANALYZE SPD'S VOLUNTARY USE OF
THE VICTIM ADVOCATES?
IF THERE IS A FEELING THAT,
PERHAPS, THEY ARE NOT BEING
DEPLOYED AS OFTEN AS THEY CAN BE
AND THAT IS ANECDOTAL, IS THERE
DATA THAT WE COULD SEEK TO
EITHER CONFIRM OR DISPUTE THAT?
>> I SEE UTILIZATION OF OUR
PROGRAM IS SOMETHING I HAVE
WOKED ON FOR MANY YEARS.
I WILL SAY THAT WHERE WE ARE
POSSIBLY SEEING A REDUCTION IN
USE OF CALLING US OUT ON THE
SCENE, WE ARE TRYING TO CLOSE
GAPS IN OTHER WAYS.
THE BENEFIT OF HAVING THIS
PARTNERSHIP AND ACCESS TO
SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND
THEIR RECORDS IS THAT WE CAN DO
A DEEPER DIVE ON CALLS THAT WE
ARE NOT GETTING CALLED TO ON
SCENE AND FOR INSTANCE, CASES
WHERE WE SEE THAT THEY WON'T
GET ASSIGNED A DETECTIVE OR
WON'T GET ASIDE A SYSTEM BASED
ADVOCATE.
WE WILL TRY TO FILL THAT GAP
LATER ON, MAYBE EVEN THE NEXT
DAY, BY REACHING OUT TO THE
SURVIVOR OF THAT CRIME AND
PROVIDING THOSE SERVICES,
OTHERWISE.
WE ARE REALLY TRYING TO GET
MORE CREATIVE ABOUT HOW WE CAN
REACH OUT TO FOLKS WHO NEED OUR
SERVICES THAT ARE NOT BEING
CALLED OUT TO THE SCENE WITH
THE VOLUNTEERS ON THE WEEKEND
AND THAT IS WHERE OUR STAFF
ADVOCATE REALLY COMES IN.
>> THANK YOU.
SO, WE COULD REQUEST
INFORMATION FROM HSD ABOUT THE
NUMBER OF TIMES THAT YOU WENT
OUT, WITH THE OFFICER AND TIMES
YOU DIDN'T GO OUT BUT FOLLOWED
UP THE NEXT DAY?
THAT IS A REPORT WE COULD FILL?
>> I DO KEEP THAT INFORMATION,
YES.
>> THANK YOU.
>> I'M NOT SEEING ANY OTHER
QUESTIONS OR HANDS.
IS THAT THE CONCLUSION OF THE
REPORT?
>> IT IS.
>> GREAT.
ONE OTHER QUESTION, TANYA, WE
HAD TALKED ABOUT THE FACT THAT
YOU ARE WORKING ON FINALIZING
AN MOU WITH THE SEATTLE POLICE.
JUST SO FOLKS UNDERSTAND THE
COMPLEXITY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS
TRANSFER, CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE
BIT ABOUT THE AREAS THAT THIS
MOU IS GOING TO COVER?
>> DANA CAN SPEAK TO THAT.
>> WITH THIS TRANSITION, THE
INTERDEPARTMENTAL AGREEMENT WAS
CREATED AND IT DEFINES THE
COORDINATION AND OUTLINES
MATTERS RELATED TO BUSINESS
REQUIREMENTS AND SPECIFIC JOB
DUTIES OF EACH EMPLOYEE.
IT ESTABLISHES A PLAN FOR
ONGOING CASE ASSIGNMENTS FOR
THE STAFF AND THE USE OF
EQUIPMENT AND CONTINUED ACCESS
TO SECURE LAW ENFORCEMENT
FACILITIES AND SECURE DATABASES
AND POLICE RECORDS.
>> SO, THIS IS CURRENTLY NOW
BEING ROUNDED UP FOR
SIGNATURES?
GREAT.
ALL RIGHT.
GREAT NEWS.
>> I HAVE BEEN CHECKING ON THE
STATUS OF THAT A LITTLE BIT
HERE AND THERE AND LAST TIME I
DID NOT KNOW THAT YOU WERE AT
THIS STAGE.
GOOD NEWS TO RECEIVE IN A
COMMITTEE BRIEFING AND SO THANK
YOU.
I'M NOT HEARING OR SEEING ANY
OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS.
NO RAISED HANDS AND I KNOW
ACTUAL RAISED HANDS, SO I
APPRECIATE YOUR FLEXIBILITY
WITH OUR AGENDA AND I
APPRECIATE THE WORK YOU ARE
DOING AND I SEE THAT
COUNCILMEMBER GONZALEZ IS
COMING ON THE SCREEN TO SAY
HELLO AND GOODBYE, OR DO YOU
HAVE A QUESTION?
>> I ALSO WANTED TO EXPRESS MY
DEEP APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE
TO THE TEAM FOR A GOOD
PRESENTATION.
I WAS TAKING LOTS OF NOTES AND
I REALLY APPRECIATE THE HARD
WORK.
THIS IS A DIFFICULT SPACE TO
WORK WITH IAN AND I REALLY
APPRECIATE THE TENACITY AND THE
THOROUGHNESS OF THE TEAM.
THANK YOU ALL FOR THAT WORK.
>> ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, YOUR
WORK AND FLEXIBILITY WITH THIS
TODAY.
THE NEXT PUBLIC SAFETY
COMMITTEE IS MAY 11th AND
BEFORE WE ADJOURN, IS THERE ANY
COMMENTS FROM MY COLLEAGUES OR
CLOSING REMARKS?
THIS IS THE TIME TO MAKE THEM.
IF NOT, WE ARE ADJOURNED.
>> IT'S 12:27.